metrical composition
51Cædmon — m ( es/ as) Cadmon; a man employed by the monks of Whitby in the are of their cattle in the early part of the seventh century. He is the first person of whom we possess any metrical composition in our vernacular language. So striking and similar… …
52nonce — (n.) abstracted from phrase for þe naness (c.1200) for a special occasion, for a particular purpose, itself a misdivision (see N (Cf. N) for other examples) of for þan anes for the one, in reference to a particular occasion or purpose, the þan… …
53song — O.E. sang art of singing, a metrical composition adapted for singing, from P.Gmc. *sangwaz (Cf. O.N. söngr, Norw. song, Swed. sông, O.S., Dan., O.Fris., O.H.G., Ger. sang, M.Du. sanc, Du. zang, Goth. saggws), related to SING (Cf. sing) (q.v.) …
54verse — (n.) c.1050, line or section of a psalm or canticle, later line of poetry (late 14c.), from Anglo French and O.Fr. vers, from L. versus verse, line of writing, from PIE root *wer to turn, bend (see VERSUS (Cf. versus)). The metaphor is of plowing …
55poem — n. Metrical composition, piece of poetry …
56poesy — n. 1. Poet craft, poet skill. 2. Poetry, verse, metrical composition …
57poetry — n. Verse, rhyme, poesy, metrical composition, numbers …
58versification — n. Verse, metrical composition …
59poetry — noun a book of Jimmy Carter s poetry Syn: poems, verse, versification, metrical composition, rhymes, balladry; archaic poesy …
60verse — n 1. stanza, strophe, Prosody. stave, canto, stich, line; couplet, Prosody. triplet, Prosody. tercet, quatrain. 2. poem, lyric, sonnet, villanelle, ode, Class. Prosody. epode; rondelet, pastoral, idyll, eclogue, bucolic; rhyme, limerick, jingle,… …