Po"em (?), n. [L. poëma, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;
to make, to
compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F.
poëme.]
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.
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