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Ode vs Limerick - What's the difference?

ode | limerick |

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)
  • 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.
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats

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    limerick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba , and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.