What means "ode" in English?

Question

Not a translation, but explanation...

Answer 1

It is a poem of praise, and follows certain conventions of rhyme and structure, like a sonnet, or a ballad, all different types of poems that have to follow certain rules to be recognized as belonging to that kind.

Answer 2

A form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse. A classic ode is structured in three parts - the strophe, the antistrophe and the epode but different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode exist.

Answer 3

"Ode" it's a type of lyric or melic verse, usually irregular rather than uniform, generally of considerable length, and sometimes continuous, sometimes divided in accordance with transitions of thought and mood in a complexity of stanzaic forms; it often has varying iambic line lengths with no fixed system of rhyme schemes and is always marked by the rich, intense expression of an elevated thought, often addressed to a praised person or object.