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Ode

 

Dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally. Odes originally were songs performed to the accompaniment of a musical instrument.
 
The poetic form:  ode
Writing an ode -- lesson plan
Elementary Odes -- Pablo Neruda