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Ode vs Quatrain - What's the difference?

ode | quatrain |

As nouns the difference between ode and quatrain

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 quatrain is a poem in four lines.

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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    quatrain

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia quatrain) (en noun)
  • a poem in four lines
  • a stanza of four lines
  • Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
    Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
    And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
    The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.

    See also

    * couplet * tercet * terzain * cinquain * sestet * septet * octave