/ English Dictionary

LYRIC POEM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short poem of songlike quality

Synonyms:

lyric; lyric poem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lyric poem" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Meronyms (parts of "lyric poem"):

strophe (one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama)

antistrophe (the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lyric poem"):

ode (a lyric poem with complex stanza forms)

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