Ode vs Limerick - What's the difference?
ode | limerick |
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.
As nouns the difference between ode and limerick
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 limerick is a humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.As a proper noun Limerick is
a county in the Republic of Ireland.ode
English
(wikipedia ode)Noun
(en noun)- Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats