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Meaning: Literature in metrical form Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents Synonyms: Hypernyms ("poesy" is a kind of...): genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing) Domain member category: hush; still; stillness ((poetic) tranquil silence) sonnet (compose a sonnet) sonnet (praise in a sonnet) scan (conform to a metrical pattern) darkling ((poetic) occurring in the dark or night) orient ((poetic) eastern) stilly ((poetic) still or calm) scrivened (copied in handwriting) lyric (of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)) elegise; elegize (compose an elegy) spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic) metrify (compose in poetic meter) dolor; dolour ((poetry) painful grief) Erin (an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry) lyric (write lyrics for (a song)) relyric (write new lyrics for (a song)) tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes) alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry) poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse) sweet; sweetly (in an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly')) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poesy"): epos (a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme) epic poetry; heroic poetry (poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero) "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (English proverb) "Words coming from far away are always half true, half false." (Bhutanese proverb) "The weapon first, fighting second." (Arabic proverb) "A monkey is a gazelle in its mother’s eyes." (Egyptian proverb) Useful links: Meaning of sonnet Meaning of darkling Meaning of stilly Meaning of spondaize Meaning of poetise
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