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Horatian ode

noun

, Prosody.
  1. an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.


Horatian ode

noun

  1. an ode of several stanzas, each of the same metrical pattern Also calledSapphic ode
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

She knew by heart no Horatian ode which, declaiming against time, could shatter the cruelty of impermanence.

There was Robert H. Messinger, known through his Horatian ode, Give Me the Old, his fame daily expanding in fashionable and literary circles.

I doubt if the red wine of the Horatian odes was more exhilarating to the Roman legionary than the aroma from his tin cup to the soldier of the Union.

Nor blizzard can destroy it, nor furious rain corrode— Remember, I'm the bard that built the first Horatian ode.

His Anacreontic and Horatian odes are far happier; among these some of his most delightful work is found.

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