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(1):

(n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

(2):

(n.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Poem'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/poem.html. 1828.
 
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