Definition of Ode

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Definition of Ode
	Ode 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. Related Definitions: And, Appropriate, Be, By, Characterized, Composition, Dignity, Lyric, Music, Noble, Now, Of, Or, Poem, Poetical, Proper, Sentiment, Set, Short, Style, Sung, Sustained, To

Ode Quotations

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
Austin Dobson

Ode Translations

ode in Dutch is ode
ode in German is Gedicht
ode in Spanish is oda

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