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Rhyme
An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
Lyrical
Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
Madrigal
A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
Rondeau
A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
Sapphic
Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
Runic
Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
Poetic
Alt. of Poetical
Pierian
Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.
Narrative
Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
Hagiology
The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.
Satire
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of J..
Rhapsodic
Alt. of Rhapsodic
Lyric
Alt. of Lyrical
Pastoral
Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
Narration
The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
History
A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true ..
Monody
A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
Fiction
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
Ballad
A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
Storybook
A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
Sonnet
A short poem, -- usually amatory.
Roundelay
See Rondeau, and Rondel.
Ode
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Elegy
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Dirge
A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Bucolic
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Romance
A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fict..
Epic
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are na..
Episode
A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, b..
Yarn
Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
Memoir
Alt. of Memoirs
Didactic
Alt. of Didactical
Version
A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
Idyllic
Of or belonging to idyls.
Rehearsal
The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.
Recital
The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
Poem
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from p..
History
A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of ..
Palinode
An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
Epigram
A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is oft..
Relation
The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
Description
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Homeric
Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.
Novel
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
Dramatic
Alt. of Dramatical
Story
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond..
Telling
of Tell
Embellish
To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with m..
Elegiac
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Review
To view or see again; to look back on.
Statement
The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
Song
That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
Report
To refer.
Chronicle
An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
Account
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
Verse
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
Heroic
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Legend
That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
Tale
See Tael.
Jingle
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
Roundel
A rondelay.
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