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n. A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.

n. A choric song of classical Greece, often accompanied by a dance and performed at a public festival or as part of a drama.

n. A classical Greek poem modeled on the choric ode and usually having a three-part structure consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.

n. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

n. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

n. A lyric poem expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion, especially one of complex or irregular metrical form; originally and strictly, such a composition intended to be sung.

n. The music to which such a poem is set.

n. In ancient prosody, the fourth part of the parabasis of a comedy. See parabasis. Also called the strophe.

n. In the Gr. Ch.: One of nine canticles from Scripture, sung whole or in part on different days of the week at lauds (orthros). ; ;

n. One of a series of songs or hymns, normally nine in number, called the canon of odes (see canon, 13), sung to a musical tone, generally at lauds (orthros).

n. Same as odd for woad.

n. a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

"In "Crystal Palace" (2002, revised 2011), in what he calls an ode to "digital interlace," he disassembles a landscape of majestic snow-wreathed conifers at Lake Tahoe (and, briefly, a red house) into sharply differentiated parts and visual planes, isolating these elements in a way that brings to mind the individual layers of a paper diorama."

lyric    lyric poem   

choral ode   

Horatian ode    Pindaric    epithalamium    Pindaric ode    sapphic ode    choral ode   

poem    monody    genethliacon    triumph    pro-ode    odelet    epicedium    epinicion    parode    palinode   

Rhode    abode    bestowed    bestrode    blowed    bode    bowed    brode    busload    coad   

sonnet    oration    hymn    ballad    anthem    eulogy    epic    couplet    elegy    sermon