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What is a ode poem example?
An ode is a kind of poem, usually praising something. A famous example is John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Apparently, Keats was really into urns. ... The word ode comes from a Greek word for "song," and like a song, an ode is made up of verses and can have a complex meter.

Definitions of ode
noun a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

types:

epithalamium
an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom

Horatian ode, Sapphic ode
an ode with several stanzas
Pindaric, Pindaric ode
an ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units

choral ode
ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama

prothalamion, prothalamium
a song in celebration of a marriage


https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-an-ode#3-examples-of-odes
3 Examples of Odes
The best way to understand the differences between the types of odes is to see examples. Here are examples of Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular odes:

1. Pindaric Ode
A famous English language poem that is written in the Pindaric style is “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” by William Wordsworth, published in 1807. One of its verses reads:

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,
And while the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound,
To me alone there came a thought of grief:
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong:
The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep;
No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;
I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng,
The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep,
And all the earth is gay;
Land and sea
Give themselves up to jollity,
And with the heart of May
Doth every Beast keep holiday;—
Thou Child of Joy,
Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy.

2. Horatian Ode
An English language poem that demonstrates the Horatian form is “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” by Andrew Marvell from 1650. An excerpt reads:

The forward youth that would appear
Must now forsake his Muses dear,
Nor in the shadows sing
His numbers languishing.
’Tis time to leave the books in dust,
And oil th’ unused armour’s rust,
Removing from the wall
The corslet of the hall.
So restless Cromwell could not cease
In the inglorious arts of peace,
But thorough advent’rous war
Urged his active star.
And like the three-fork’d lightning, first
Breaking the clouds where it was nurst,
Did through his own side
His fiery way divide.

3. Irregular Ode

For an example of an irregular ode, look to Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Ode to the West Wind,” published in 1820. An excerpt reads:

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable! If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be

The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seem'd a vision; I would ne'er have striven

As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

Shelley wrote during the Romantic era, when poets sought to push boundaries and embrace relatively irregular forms. Another enduring ode from this era is John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” published in 1819 and inspired by the song of its namesake bird. Keats also published “Ode on a Grecian Urn” in the very same year, and it remains widely read to this day.


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