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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. H.T. Johnson, "Memorial Ode to Frederick Douglass" (1904)
  5. Edward Smyth Jones, "The Sylvan Cabin: A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln" (1911)