poem

A poem is a structured or free-form composition that uses rhythm, sound, imagery, and condensed language to evoke emotions, convey ideas, or tell a story.

Observed surface forms (30)

• narrative poem ×18
• modernist poem ×4
• alliterative poem ×3
• anti-war poem ×2
• poetic text ×2
• satirical poem ×2
• Afrikaans narrative poem ×1
• Afrikaans poem ×1
• Christmas poem ×1
• Dutch poem ×1

• Scots-language poem ×1
• acrostic poem ×1
• debate poem ×1
• dramatic poem ×1
• dream vision poem ×1
• free verse poem ×1
• genealogical poem ×1
• ghazal ×1
• historical poem ×1
• lament psalm ×1
• lamentation poem ×1
• meditative poem ×1
• memoir-in-verse ×1
• moral poem ×1
• pastoral poem ×1
• pastoral poem sequence ×1
• poem title ×1
• poetic cycle ×1
• prose poetry book ×1
• war poetry ×1

Instances (117)

• A Dream Within a Dream
• Annabel Lee
• Lenore
  surface form: Lenore (poem)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu)
  surface form: Kubla Khan
• A Fable for Critics via concept surface "satirical poem"
• The Vision of Sir Launfal via concept surface "narrative poem"
• The Economy of Vegetation
• The Loves of the Plants
• Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl via concept surface "narrative poem"
• The Barefoot Boy
• Selma (poem by James Macpherson)
• The Chambered Nautilus
• Raka via concept surface "Afrikaans narrative poem"
• Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi via concept surface "poetic cycle"
• Troilus and Criseyde
• The Legend of Good Women
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
• Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
• The Progress of Poesy
• Kaddish
• Old Ironsides
• Howl
• Zeestraet
• Pearl via concept surface "alliterative poem"
  surface form: Pearl (poem)
• Patience via concept surface "alliterative poem"
• Cleanness via concept surface "alliterative poem"
• España: poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Lady Lazarus
• Tulips
  surface form: Tulips (poem)
• I Love a Broad Margin to My Life via concept surface "memoir-in-verse"
• Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
• O Captain! My Captain!
• Daddy
  surface form: Daddy (poem)
• Morning Song
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
• I, Too
• Mad Girl’s Love Song
• I Sing the Body Electric
• The Sleepers
• Hymn to Liberty
• Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary via concept surface "lamentation poem"
• Heroes and Villains – lyrics via concept surface "poetic text"
• Robert Burns poem "Comin' Thro' the Rye"
  surface form: Comin' Thro' the Rye
• The Botanic Garden
• Psalm 90 via concept surface "lament psalm"
• Mirour de l’Omme