as in poem
a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
As for more subtle odes to our nation, this Revolve one’s pretty great.
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Faran Krentcil,
InStyle,
1 July 2026
The project was set to be an ode to the Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2026
But Van Sant’s imaginative and deeply poignant retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is a pleasure in its own right, its sweetness and gentle touches of surrealism coming together to form a heartbreaking ode to young love.
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Liam Hess,
Vogue,
28 June 2026
The Montblanc Collection is a fantastic ode to the label’s heritage, but a warming and wintry one by and large (leather, patchouli, oud, incense).
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Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
25 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for ode
Faran Krentcil,
InStyle,
1 July 2026
The project was set to be an ode to the Brooklyn neighborhood.
—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2026
But Van Sant’s imaginative and deeply poignant retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is a pleasure in its own right, its sweetness and gentle touches of surrealism coming together to form a heartbreaking ode to young love.
—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
28 June 2026
The Montblanc Collection is a fantastic ode to the label’s heritage, but a warming and wintry one by and large (leather, patchouli, oud, incense).
—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
25 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for ode
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
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Spiro borrows part of that message from the famous poet Nikki Giovanni, who recorded her poem of that same name as a song in 1975 with producer Arif Mardin, making for the only sample or interpolation on the album.
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Helena Bonham Carter, there’s a TikTok of her reading a Mary Oliver poem.
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In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
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Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets.
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The production was built entirely with AI tools, with Madhvani writing the multilingual lyrics alongside co-creators and composing the music through Suno, a leading AI music generation platform.
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Swift has a massive global platform, and a tendency to pull back the curtain on her personal life in song lyrics and the occasional documentary.
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The rhyme references a viral chant that has taken the internet by storm during the NBA Finals in which the Knicks are currently up 3-1 against the San Antonio Spurs.
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It's got a lot going on, but there's a reason to every rhyme.
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The coffin was unveiled late on Thursday to a throng of sobbing supporters, who were swaying and beating their heads in time to a sung lament as flowers were thrown from the bier into the crowd.
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His lament mirrored the anguish of legions of Venezuelans who endured harrowing days clearing rubble by hand before crews with heavy equipment and rescue dogs belatedly arrived.
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An epic with supernatural and epigenetic overtones, this debut novel looks like a feast of a story.
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The Odyssey stars Matt Damon and John Leguizamo attend a photocall for the upcoming Christoper Nolan epic in Miami on June 26.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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Hart went into writing the ballad with that information, but the rest was up to him.
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These songs were less detailed than the ballads but conveyed intense emotion gleaned from an often hardscrabble existence.
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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