Ode

Ode is a kind of poem. Ode means you are praising something or someone using a form of a poem called ode. The famous symphony, Ode to Joy, by Beethoven, is a praise to joy. It is a happy symphony because joy means happy and praising joy should be even happier. An ode can be about anything. You can write an ode praising your dead fiancee, and the title would be Ode to my Dead Fiancee. Ode to something means praise to something in ode form, so the thing you are writing an ode about, will be called Ode to whatever you are talking about. Also, ode doesn't have to have a regular rhyme scheme because it is not like a regular poem. An ode should be quite long because if it's not long enough, you can't express your thought well enough or that the ode is not worth written about. Ode should contain strong descriptive words that help the reader or audience understand and visualize the thing. Also, an ode is normally consist of 3 parts, first being the introduction that introduces the thing to the reader or audience. Then, the second part would be the relationship of the author to the thing. Lastly, it would be twist that the audience or reader didn't expect or it could be a moral. I have a topic in mind and it is my journal. Ideas on this topic would be something like how wonderful it is, how wordy it is, how much I neglected it, and how much I wish I wrote on them regularly.