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Horatian ode

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Horatian ode
n.
An ode in which a fixed stanzaic pattern is followed.

Horatian ode
n
(Literature / Poetry) an ode of several stanzas, each of the same metrical pattern Also called Sapphic ode
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Noun1.Horatian ode - an ode with several stanzas
ode - a lyric poem with complex stanza forms


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A chapter each on Titus Andronicus, Richard II, and Edward II constitutes the book's first part, "Haunting Allegories," while the second part, "Exhuming Effigies" comprises a chapter on revenge tragedy and one on Eikon Basilike, Milton's Eikonoklastes, and Marvell's "An Horatian Ode.
The editor, who has to pilot Horace through the quicksands of modern verse, is or should be at hand to tell them how far the poem they have extracted by this means does bear any resemblance to a Horatian ode.
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