## Meanings
1. Writing arranged in lines, often with rhythm or rhyme, that expresses feelings and ideas.
2. A graceful, beautiful quality in something that stirs the emotions.

## Examples
- More people write poetry than read it.
- The dancer moved with such grace that it was pure poetry.

## Derived Forms
- antipoetry
- cyberpoetry
- ecopoetry
- hyperpoetry
- instapoetry
- jazzetry
- metapoetry
- micropoetry
- mythopoetry
- nonpoetry
- onomatopoetry
- poetryless

## Related Forms
- poet
- poetess
- poetic
- poeticize
- poetics
- poetize

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: poetrye
- Root: pöeterie
- Root: poētria
- Root: ποιητής

## Etymology
From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.

## AI Etymology
Poetry comes from Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft. In present-day English it covers writing arranged in lines, often with rhythm or rhyme, that expresses feelings and ideas and a graceful, beautiful quality in something that stirs the emotions. The wider family includes derived forms such as antipoetry, cyberpoetry, ecopoetry, hyperpoetry, instapoetry and related forms such as poet, poetess, poetic, poeticize.

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