Pindaric ode

American  

noun

Prosody.

1. an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.

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Pindaric ode British  

noun

1. Often shortened to: Pindaric.  a form of ode associated with Pindar consisting of a triple unit or groups of triple units, with a strophe and an antistrophe of identical structure followed by an epode of a different structure

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Etymology

Origin of Pindaric ode

First recorded in 1630–40

Example Sentences

Collins' poems show most of the romantic traits and their impetuous emotion often expresses itself in the form of the false Pindaric ode which Cowley had introduced.

From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington

Many of these complex stanzaic forms, moreover, belong in the tradition of the so-called Pindaric ode, imitated freely from the Greek choric odes of Pindar.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

"Mother Gooseries from the Convention", by Emilie C. Holladay, is a long stanzaic and Pindaric ode, whose taste and technic are alike impeccable.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

A mythical narrative, connected in some way with the victor or his city, usually occupies the central part of the Pindaric ode.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

Cowley, long afterwards, wrote this Pindaric ode, and wrote it coldly.

From Flower of the Mind by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson