as in sonnets
a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of odes
With nostalgic odes to musical history and memories of video games woven within, Spielberg works hard to bring Cline's love letter to the 80s to life in a visually captivating and action-packed way.
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Grace Dean,
Space.com,
1 July 2026
As for more subtle odes to our nation, this Revolve one’s pretty great.
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Faran Krentcil,
InStyle,
1 July 2026
Some holes will feature odes to the historic Stockyards, Sundance Square, Panther City and the Fort Worth Courthouse.
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Ella Gonzales
june 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
And what better way to celebrate Route 66 than dive into the inspirations behind Cars Land, one of the most loving odes to the road ever created?
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
No confirmation on whether or not any tracks are odes to the epic highs and lows of high school football.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Channeling ’90s slowcore and post-rock into gorgeously brooding odes to dejection, the Chicago quartet’s debut is downer music at its most alluring.
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Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
The photos of the revues, or espectáculos, are indeed odes to the spectacle.
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Bryan Barcena,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson has joined the Silver and Black in silver and black with a new mural at Rudy's Seafood, home to various spray-paint odes to Spurs greats old and new.
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René Guzman,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Feb. 2026
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
1 July 2026
As for more subtle odes to our nation, this Revolve one’s pretty great.
—
Faran Krentcil,
InStyle,
1 July 2026
Some holes will feature odes to the historic Stockyards, Sundance Square, Panther City and the Fort Worth Courthouse.
—
Ella Gonzales
june 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
And what better way to celebrate Route 66 than dive into the inspirations behind Cars Land, one of the most loving odes to the road ever created?
—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
No confirmation on whether or not any tracks are odes to the epic highs and lows of high school football.
—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Channeling ’90s slowcore and post-rock into gorgeously brooding odes to dejection, the Chicago quartet’s debut is downer music at its most alluring.
—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
The photos of the revues, or espectáculos, are indeed odes to the spectacle.
—
Bryan Barcena,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson has joined the Silver and Black in silver and black with a new mural at Rudy's Seafood, home to various spray-paint odes to Spurs greats old and new.
—
René Guzman,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for odes
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In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
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Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets.
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Some people like to write poems, other people like to perform music, other people like to run marathons.
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Fragments of email correspondence appear alongside bits of dialogue, histories of apocalyptic movements in Korea, and poems about the nature of time and the Bardo (the Tibetan Buddhist concept for the transitional period between death and rebirth).
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The musical, which has a book by Jeff Whitty with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, went on to play in Las Vegas, London's West End, and other locations worldwide.
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As the only standalone English track of the album, its lyrics speak of a situationship so suspended in uncertainty that Selines craftily matched it with the sonic sensation of floating into outer space.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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“Odes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odes. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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