100 Best Synonyms for “Poem”

No.	Item	Definition
1.	acrostic	A poem with letter patterns.
2.	address	A poem directed to someone.
3.	allegory	A symbolic narrative poem.
4.	apostrophe	A poem addressing an absent subject.
5.	aubade	A dawn love poem.
6.	bagatelle	A light little poem.
7.	ballad	A narrative songlike poem.
8.	ballade	A fixed French poem.
9.	blank verse	Unrhymed metered poetry.
10.	bucolic	A pastoral poem.
11.	burlesque	A comic exaggerated poem.
12.	calligram	A poem forming a picture.
13.	canticle	A biblical song or hymn.
14.	carol	A festive song or poem.
15.	chant	A rhythmic repeated poem or song.
16.	cinquain	A five-line poem.
17.	clerihew	A comic four-line biographical poem.
18.	composition	A written literary piece.
19.	couplet	A two-line poem or stanza.
20.	diamante	A diamond-shaped seven-line poem.
21.	dirge	A mournful song or poem.
22.	ditty	A simple short poem or song.
23.	doggerel	Crude or comic verse.
24.	double dactyl	A comic eight-line poem.
25.	dramatic monologue	A poem spoken by a character.
26.	eclogue	A pastoral dialogue poem.
27.	elegy	A mournful reflective poem.
28.	encomium	A praising speech or poem.
29.	epic	A long heroic poem.
30.	epigram	A short witty poem.
31.	epithalamion	A wedding celebration poem.
32.	epithalamium	A wedding song or poem.
33.	fable	A moral tale in verse.
34.	fragment	An incomplete poetic piece.
35.	free verse	Poetry without regular meter.
36.	georgic	A poem about rural life.
37.	ghazal	A rhyming couplet-based poem.
38.	haibun	A prose-and-haiku composition.
39.	haiku	A brief Japanese-style poem.
40.	hymn	A religious song or poem.
41.	idyll	A short pastoral poem.
42.	inscription	A short written verse.
43.	invective	An abusive satirical poem.
44.	jeu d’esprit	A witty short piece.
45.	jingle	A short catchy rhyming verse.
46.	lai	A medieval lyric poem.
47.	lament	A mournful poem or song.
48.	lampoon	A satirical written attack.
49.	lay	A short narrative poem or song.
50.	limerick	A humorous five-line poem.
51.	lines	A short poetic composition.
52.	lyric	A short expressive poem.
53.	macaronic	A mixed-language poem.
54.	madrigal	A short lyric poem or song.
55.	meditation	A reflective poem.
56.	metrical composition	A poem with meter.
57.	miniature	A very short literary piece.
58.	monody	A poem of lament.
59.	nocturne	A night-themed lyrical piece.
60.	nursery rhyme	A short children’s poem.
61.	obituary verse	A commemorative mourning poem.
62.	ode	A formal lyric poem.
63.	opus	A creative work.
64.	paean	A poem of praise.
65.	panegyric	A formal poem of praise.
66.	pastoral	A rural-themed poem.
67.	piece	A short written work.
68.	poesy	Poetry or poetic composition.
69.	poetry	Poetic writing or verse.
70.	prothalamion	A betrothal or wedding poem.
71.	psalm	A sacred song or poem.
72.	qasida	An Arabic ode.
73.	quatrain	A four-line poem or stanza.
74.	renga	A linked Japanese poem.
75.	requiem	A mournful musical poem.
76.	rhyme	A short rhyming poem.
77.	rondeau	A fixed French verse form.
78.	rondelet	A short fixed verse form.
79.	ruba’i	A Persian quatrain poem.
80.	rubaiyat	A poem of quatrains.
81.	rune	A poem or mysterious verse.
82.	senryu	A humorous haiku-like poem.
83.	serenade	A love song or poem.
84.	sestina	A fixed six-stanza poem.
85.	song	A lyrical poem or musical piece.
86.	sonnet	A fourteen-line poem.
87.	spoken word	Performed poetic expression.
88.	stave	A stanza or set of verses.
89.	tanka	A five-line Japanese poem.
90.	text	A written literary piece.
91.	threnody	A song or poem of mourning.
92.	trifle	A light short verse.
93.	triolet	An eight-line fixed poem.
94.	verse	A piece of poetic writing.
95.	verses	Lines of poetic writing.
96.	villanelle	A fixed nineteen-line poem.
97.	virelai	A medieval French verse form.
98.	waka	A classical Japanese poem.
99.	work	A created literary piece.
100.	writing	A written composition.