Poetry is a style of writing that uses a formal organization and that is often divided up into lines or stanzas, or it refers to something beautiful.
(noun)See poetry in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME poetrie < OFr < ML poetria < L poeta, poet
See poetry in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English poetrie
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Medieval Latin poētria
Origin: , from Latin poēta, poet; see poet
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