Ode vs. Poem — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ode and Poem
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Ode
An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōdḗ) is a type of lyrical stanza. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.
Poem
A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
Ode
A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
Poem
A composition in verse rather than in prose
Wrote both prose and poems.
Ode
A choric song of classical Greece, often accompanied by a dance and performed at a public festival or as part of a drama.
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Poem
A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
Ode
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.
Poem
A literary piece written in verse.
Ode
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Write an ode to someone
Poem
A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
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.
Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.
Poem
A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
Ode
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Poem
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; - contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
Poem
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Poem
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
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