Song vs Ode - What's the difference?
song | ode |
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
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, title= (label) Any musical composition.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:This subject for heroic song .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
The act or art of singing.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
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*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
*:The soldier's pay is a song .
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.
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 song and ode
is that song is a musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing while 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.As a proper noun Song
is a former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.song
English
(wikipedia song)Noun
(en noun)266
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Derived terms
* birdsong * for a song * old song * on song * singsong * siren song * Song of Solomon * Song of Songs * songsheet * song sparrow * song thrush * songwise * songwriter * swan songSee also
* canticle * go for a songAnagrams
* * * ----ode
English
(wikipedia ode)Noun
(en noun)- Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats