Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

Parnassus, Helicon†, Pierides, Pierian spring. versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry†. poem; epic, epic poem; epopee†, epopoea, ode, epode†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet†, cento†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal†, palinode. dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music &c 415; nursery rhymes. [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse†, prose run mad; macaronics†; macaronic verse†, leonine verse; runes. canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe†. verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation &c (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis†, antispast†, blank verse, ictus. elegiacs &c adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry. poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist†, scald, skald†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.]. V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan. Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c n.; metrical; a catalectin†; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic†; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic†; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic†, Pindaric. Phr. a poem round and perfect as a star [Alex. Smith]; Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.]; furor poeticus [Lat.]; his virtues formed the magic of his song [Hayley]; I do but sing because I must [Tennyson]; I learnt life from the poets [de Stael]; licentia vatum [Lat.]; mutum est pictura poema [Lat.]; O for a muse of fire! [Henry V]; sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge [Sidney]; the true poem is the poet's mind [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker [G.]; wisdom married to immortal verse [Wordsworth].