[Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse[obs3], prose run mad;
macaronics[obs3]; macaronic verse[obs3], leonine verse; runes.
     canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain;
strophe, antistrophe[obs3].
     verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo[obs3], meter, measure, foot, numbers,
strain, rhythm; accentuation &c. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis[obs3], antispast[obs3], blank verse, ictus.
     elegiacs &c. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
     poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist[obs3], scald, skald[obs3],
troubadour, trouvere[Fr]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger[Ger]; improvisatore[obs3]; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist[obs3], rhymester; ballad monger, runer[obs3]; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Latin]. 
     V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan. 
     Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c.
n.; metrical; a catalectin[obs3]; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic[obs3]; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic[obs3]; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic[obs3], Pindaric. 
     Phr. “a poem round and perfect as a star” [Alex.  Smith]; Dichtung und
Wahrheit [Ger]; 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[Ger]; “wisdom married to immortal verse” [Wordsworth].

     #598.  Prose. —­ N. prose, prose writer. prosaicism[obs3],
prosaism[obs3], prosaist[obs3], proser[obs3]. 
     V. prose.
     write prose, write in prose. 
     Adj. prosal[obs3],prosy, prosaic; unpoetic, unpoetical[obs3].
     rhymeless[obs3], unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.

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     #599.  The Drama. —­ N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play;
film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus[obs3], Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.
     play, drama, stage play, piece[Fr], five-act play, tragedy, comedy,
opera, vaudeville, comedietta[obs3], lever de rideau[Fr], interlude, afterpiece[obs3], exode[obs3], farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta[obs3], harlequinade[obs3], pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe[Fr], ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame[Fr]; melodrama, melodrame[obs3]; comidie larmoyante[Fr], sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue[obs3];duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.
     [movies] western, horse opera; flick [coll.]; spy film, love story,
adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic