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LYRIC POEM
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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)
