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Pronunciation : Po"em
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. po?ma, Gr. po?me.]
Definition : 1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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