to compose a haiku or waka / to recite, to chant

a death poem / death

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a phrase or clause / a verse from a song / a stanza from a poem / a sentence or line / a passage or paragraph

counter for stanzas from a poem or for haiku

phrase

clause / sentence / phrase / verse

(literature) beautiful passage of literature