a composition in verse of a due length and measure.

Poems are generally denominated from the subject matter, as the apobaterion, epibaterion, epinicion, epithalamium, genethliac, elegiac, satiric, epitaph, panegyric, lyric, pastoral, &c. and others from the manner of narration, as epic, dramatic, &c. to which may be added odes, eclogues, and idylls. To this head may also be referred several other compositions of a less serious kind, as the acrostic, enigma, anagram, cento, echo, &c.