LYRIC POEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lyric poem mean? 

• LYRIC POEM (noun)
  The noun LYRIC POEM has 1 sense:

1. a short poem of songlike quality

  Familiarity information: LYRIC POEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYRIC POEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short poem of songlike quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

lyric; lyric poem

Hypernyms ("lyric poem" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Meronyms (parts of "lyric poem"):

strophe (one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama)

antistrophe (the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lyric poem"):

ode (a lyric poem with complex stanza forms)