Ode vs Lament - What's the difference?
ode | lament |
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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* Dryden
As nouns the difference between ode and lament
is that ode is a short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style while lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.As a verb lament is
to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.ode
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(wikipedia ode)Noun
(en noun)- Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats
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* ----lament
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* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.