A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
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Acquainted.
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To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
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To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of dis…
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A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
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To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
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Flax; linen.
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A feather.
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A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…
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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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Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.
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Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
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An epic.
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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 always a spondee.…
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Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
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To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
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A verse containing eight feet; as, --//Deep# in|to# the | dark#ness | peer#ing, | long# I | stood# there | wond'#ring, | fear#ing.
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Octosyllabic.
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A verse of five feet.
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A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
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To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
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To make verse.
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A short poem, -- usually amatory.
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One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
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One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
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To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.
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To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.
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An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
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An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
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One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.
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One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.
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A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…
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The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.
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To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.
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The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
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An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
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To make verses.
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