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Poetize

To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.

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Compose 76% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

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Indite 76% connected

To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

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Pen 76% connected

A feather.

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

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Elegize 76% connected

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

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Metrify 76% connected

To make verse.

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Sonnet 76% connected

A short poem, -- usually amatory.

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Rhyme 74% connected

An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

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Rhyme 74% connected

An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

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Verse 74% connected

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

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Verse 74% connected

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

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Verse 92% connected

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

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Versify 92% connected

To make verses.

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Acromonogrammatic adjective · 78% connection

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

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Asclepiad noun · 78% connection

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

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Bard noun · 78% connection

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic ach…

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

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Circler noun · 78% connection

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic…

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Comment verb · 78% connection

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meani…

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Compile verb · 78% connection

To write; to compose.

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Dictate verb · 78% connection

To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

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Draft verb · 78% connection

To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

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Engross verb · 78% connection

To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engro…

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Fable verb · 78% connection

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

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Hemistich noun · 78% connection

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

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Hexameter noun · 78% connection

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth al…

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Hypermeter noun · 78% connection

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

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Idealize verb · 78% connection

To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.

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Idealized imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Idealize

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Idealizing p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Idealize

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Improvise verb · 78% connection

To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemp…

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