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Ode

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Poems by African American poets that use the "Ode" form. Odes are defined as lyric poems in an elevated style that celebrate a particular subject.

Lewis Turco, in The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, indicates that there are three common forms of the Ode, the Pindaric Ode, the English or Keatsian ode (30 lines, with a rhyme scheme of ababcdecde), and the Horatian ode. There are also irregular odes, which could have quite various forms. 

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  1. Poetic Form in African American Poetry Amardeep Singh

Contents of this tag:

  1. B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)
  2. Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
  3. William Pickens, "'The Crisis'" (1914)
  4. Edward Smyth Jones, "The Sylvan Cabin: A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln" (1911)
  5. H.T. Johnson, "Memorial Ode to Frederick Douglass" (1904)