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a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
your assignment is to write two poems about springtime
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Recent Examples of poem
Damon is starring as the Greek mythological hero Odysseus in Nolan's upcoming adaptation of the epic poem The Odyssey.
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Tommy McArdle, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
After Vincent’s death, there were excruciating days, days of numbness, days of contentment and days of melancholy, days of reading and writing and days of not being able to read or write, days of holding on upside down (like the bat in Marianne Moore’s poem) and days of holding on right side up.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Her journals and poems, collected in binders, served as the scaffolding.
—Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Artists also wrote poems that were projected and traced onto the walls.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
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Tommy McArdle, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
After Vincent’s death, there were excruciating days, days of numbness, days of contentment and days of melancholy, days of reading and writing and days of not being able to read or write, days of holding on upside down (like the bat in Marianne Moore’s poem) and days of holding on right side up.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Her journals and poems, collected in binders, served as the scaffolding.
—Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Artists also wrote poems that were projected and traced onto the walls.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poem
Noun
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With her legal team’s permission, Yanou and Manian, who both prefer to keep a low profile and are no longer a part of Cascada, interpolated Reilly’s chorus and wrote entirely new verses and production arrangements.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2025
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The record does, however, feature a brand new verse from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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Listen a little more closely, however, and the lyrics often veer toward tales of dystopia and doomed love and mortality.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
29 Apr. 2025
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Steel denied that Williams’s lyrics were proof of crimes.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Their roster features major players from both genres scenes, including Knocked Loose, State Champs, Less Than Jake, Senses Fail, and The Story So Far, who are named after a classic New Found Glory song.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
30 Apr. 2025
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The song incorporates music, spoken word, clips of a Vietnamese woman crying out for her son, and the sound of air raid sirens.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
30 Apr. 2025
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But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poem. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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