Sapphic ode

American  

noun

Prosody.

1. Horatian ode.

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Sapphic ode British  

noun

1. another term for Horatian ode

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Etymology

Origin of Sapphic ode

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself by writing Greek verse—winning the prize for a Sapphic ode on “Egypt.”

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And then my Sapphic ode, in honour of the pious Wiborad is likewise very pretty.

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Dr. Watts wrote a Sapphic ode on the "Last Judgment," which notwithstanding the solemnity of the subject, almost provokes a smile.

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Occasionally the services began with a Sapphic ode by Gregory the Great, whose opening line, Ecce iam noctis tenuatur umbra, set to music from the Salisbury Hymnal, resounded through the arches of the chapel like a call to the duties of the day.

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The celebrated Sapphic ode, addressed by Alsop to Sir John Dolben, professes to have been written with a pipe in his mouth:— "Dum tubum, ut mos est meus, ore versans, Martiis pensans quid agam calendas, Pone stat Sappho monitisque miscet Blanda severis."

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