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nouna composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
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- key United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
- hero the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- lay a narrative poem of popular origin
- poet a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- cycle a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- lindsay United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931)
- virgil a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)
- frost United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
- epic a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- milton English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)