elegy and ode...?

Question

is there any pattern in an ode and elegy??
how many stanzas are there?


can someone give me an example of horatian and irregular ode?
i can't find any..

thank you very much
hope u can help me..

Answer 1

Ode is a lyrical verse form about a dignified theme. As Holman (1972: 363) points out, "in form the ode is more complicated than most of the lyric types. Perhaps the essential distinction of form is the division into "strophes" [in the Pindaric ode]: the strophe [= the first stanza], antistrophe [= the second stanza of the ode] and epode [= the third stanza in the Pindaric ode]."

The Horatian ode is called "homostrophic" (= just one stanzaic form"), that is, it differs from the Pindaric ode (above) in form and in content (= it is less formal). One example of a Horatian ode is Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn".

Irregular ode: it differs from both types (the Horatian and the Pindaric). As Holman observes, it "freely alters its stanzaid forms both in number and in length" (p.280). One example of an "irregular ode" is Wordsworth's "Ode on Intimations of Immortality".