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The name [ode] comes from a Greek word meaning [something which is sung].

In an ode the poet invents a new stanza, and then repeats the stanza as many times as he needs to complete the poem.

We don't normally call it an ode if the poet uses a stanza type which is already well known (so a poem in quatrains or couplets is not an ode).

Most odes are patterned on the odes of Pindar (a Greek poet who specialised in ode writing) and a special feature of the stanza is that it features both long and very short lines.

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