Horatian ode
Americannoun
noun
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Yet Merrill's own repertoire includes a Horatian ode, several forms of sonnets, a slightly modified villanelle and a stretch of Dantesque terza rima.
From Time Magazine Archive
The English "Horatian" ode, then, while exhibiting the greatest differences in complexity of stanzaic forms, is "homostrophic."
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
It was Lebeau's wish that the Horatian ode should be read to him instead of the prayers for the dying.
From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston
Nor blizzard can destroy it, nor furious rain corrode— Remember, I'm the bard that built the first Horatian ode.
From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
She knew by heart no Horatian ode which, declaiming against time, could shatter the cruelty of impermanence.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
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