An ode is a lyric poem written to something or someone — a celebration, an address, a meditation on a subject the poet considers worthy of sustained attention. Keats wrote odes to nightingales, Grecian urns, and autumn. Neruda wrote odes to socks and tomatoes. The form is flexible: Pindaric odes have a strict strophe/antistrophe/epode structure, Horatian odes are more regular, and irregular odes follow their own rules.
An ode is a lyric poem written to something or someone — a celebration, an address, a meditation on a subject the poet considers worthy of sustained attention. Keats wrote odes to nightingales, Grecian urns, and autumn. Neruda wrote odes to socks and tomatoes. The form is flexible: Pindaric odes have a strict strophe/antistrophe/epode structure, Horatian odes are more regular, and irregular odes follow their own rules.
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Try the Poem Generator →An ode is a lyric poem written to something or someone — a celebration, an address, a meditation on a subject the poet considers worthy of sustained attention. Keats wrote odes to nightingales, Grecian urns, and autumn. Neruda wrote odes to socks and tomatoes. The form is flexible: Pindaric odes have a strict strophe/antistrophe/epode structure, Horatian odes are more regular, and irregular odes follow their own rules.
See the structure section above — line count, rhyme scheme, meter, and stanza requirements vary by form.
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