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Versify

To make verses.

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Broader term 4

Compose 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Indite 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pen 76% connected

A feather.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 3

Elegize 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Metrify 76% connected

To make verse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sonnet 76% connected

A short poem, -- usually amatory.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Poet 74% connected

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Poet 74% connected

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rhymester 74% connected

A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rhymester 74% connected

A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

Poetize 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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