100 Best Synonyms for “Poem”

100 Best Synonyms for

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.