Other forms: poems
A poem is a short piece of writing set out in lines, often with rhythm and rhyme. Write a poem, learn a poem, a love poem.
The lines are the defining feature — a poet chooses where each one ends, and prose does not. Rhyme is common but not required: free verse has none. Named forms include the sonnet, the haiku, the ballad and the limerick. Note poetry, which is the art and the mass noun; poet, the writer; and poetic, which describes anything beautifully expressed, as in poetic justice, meaning an outcome that fits the crime.
1nounpoemA short piece of writing set out in lines.
“The poem is fourteen lines and took him a year.”
poem is a piece of writing.
Greek poiema meant a thing made, from poiein, to make — the same root as poet, a maker. The Greeks named poetry after craft rather than inspiration, which is the older and more useful of the two views.
Ancient Greek
ποίημα
Latin
poēma
Middle French
poème
English, today
poem
Built from
From Middle French poème, from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα, from ποιέω (“to make”). Widely leed#Etymology_2.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA