Poem vs. Pome — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Poem and Pome
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Poem
A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
Pome
In botany, a pome is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae. Well-known pomes include the apple, pear, and quince.
Poem
A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
Pome
A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium.
Poem
A composition in verse rather than in prose
Wrote both prose and poems.
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Pome
(botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
The best-known example of a pome is the apple.
Poem
A literary piece written in verse.
Pome
(Roman Catholic) A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
Poem
A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
Pome
To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
Poem
A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
Pome
A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
Poem
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.
Pome
A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
Poem
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Pome
To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
Poem
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
Pome
A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
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