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Of or pertaining to Pindar
An ode of an irregular form erroneously derived from Pindar, popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
A Pindaric ode
Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes
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Pindaric flight
A literary passage that has no logical connection to the surrounding work, or that is a long digression that becomes less and less related to the original passage
Pindaric flights
plural form of Pindaric flight
Pindaric ode
An ode in the form used by Pindar, consisting of a series of triads in which the strophe and antistrophe have the same stanza form and the epode has a different form. Ceremonious poem in the manner of Pindar, who employed a triadic, or three-part, structure consisting of a strophe (two or more lines repeated as a unit) followed by a metrically harmonious antistrophe and an epode (summary line) in a different metre. The three parts correspond to movements onstage by the chorus in Greek drama. After the 16th-century publication of Pindar's choral odes in the epinicion (celebratory) form, poets writing in various vernaculars created irregular rhymed odes that suggest his style. Such odes in English are among the greatest poems in the language, including John Dryden's "Alexander's Feast," William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," and John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn
pindaric ode
an ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units
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