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(n)
(countable) A word that rhymes with another.
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(v)
(ambitransitive) to make or compose verses
Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
(intransitive) To compose poetry.
The art or composition of poetry.
a line of metrical text
(poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
A literary piece written in verse.
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
A symbol in an alphabet.
(printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
(adv)
In the direction of something (indicated by context).
(by extension) A comprehensive manual that describes something, or a publication with a loyal readership.
(adj)
That is not free of charge; that costs money.
(India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
A surname.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
(usually in the plural) The words of a song or other vocal music.
A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
A short, simple verse or song.
One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
(prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
(religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
(music) A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
A poem in four lines.
To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
(poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
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Any of the 114 chapters of the Quran.
The foundational text of a given religion, or a text considered especially holy.
A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.
Alternative form of shloka. [A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.]
Pertaining to chiasmus.
One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.
(Christianity) One of the books of the New Testament which was originally a letter issued by an apostle to an individual or a community.
An approximate half-line of verse, separated from another by a caesura, often for dramatic effect.
(Hinduism) A poem or mantra, especially one recited mentally as part of meditation or mindfulness practice.
Of or pertaining to stanzas.
(Islam) A verse in the Quran.
(poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
A brief but witty saying.
(poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
(music) Of a song, composed so that every stanza is set to the same music.
rhyme
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
A short written or spoken expression.
A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service
The third of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible; the third book in the Torah.
Abbreviation of chapter. [One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.]
A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
having corrnesponding sounds especially terminal sounds
A composition in verse.
A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
(N)
a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Private Music.
Of, pertaining to, or in the form of a benediction.
(Sanskrit: स्तोत्र) a Sanskrit word that means "ode, eulogy or a hymn of praise.
That imprecates or invokes evil.
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
A verse of the Torah
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
(Judaism) An Aramaic translation of the Tanakh written or compiled between the Second Temple period and the early Middle Ages.
(rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
A chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.
Having no rhyme.
Language intended to give advice or to urge or encourage.
A book of liturgical responses
Synonym of poetic.
The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause.
(biblical) Initialism of New American Standard Bible.
A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
an instrumental collective from Seattle, Washington.