Synonyms for poesy
ˈpoʊ ə si, -zipoesy

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1. poesynoun

   Synonyms:
   verse, poetry

2. poesynoun

   A poem.

   Synonyms:
   verse, poetry

3. poesynoun

   The class of literature comprising poems; poetry, verse.

   Synonyms:
   verse, poetry

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1. poesy

   Poetry is that form of literature that embodies beautiful thought, feeling, or action in melodious, rhythmical, and (usually) metrical language, in imaginative and artistic constructions. Poetry in a very wide sense may be anything that pleasingly addresses the imagination; as, the poetry of motion. In ordinary usage, poetry is both imaginative and metrical. There may be poetry without rime, but hardly without meter, or what in some languages takes its place, as the Hebrew parallelism; but poetry involves, besides the artistic form, the exercise of the fancy or imagination in a way always beautiful, often lofty or even sublime. Failing this, there may be verse, rime, and meter, but not poetry. There is much in literature that is beautiful and sublime in thought and artistic in construction, which is yet not poetry, because quite devoid of the element of song, whereby poetry differs from the most lofty, beautiful, or impassioned prose. Compare METER.

   Synonyms:
   meter, metrical composition, numbers, poem, poetry, rime, song, verse

   Antonyms:
   prosaic speech, prosaic writing, prose

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1. poetry, poesy, versenoun

   literature in metrical form

   Synonyms:
   verse line, poetry, verse, rhyme

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1. poesynoun

   Synonyms:
   POETRY, verse

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1. Cervantes:

   Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.