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When writing an ode pick a subject that you really like or enjoy. Odes can be about objects, places, and even people. Most odes have at least three stanzas that are ten lines long. You can also use any type of rhyme scheme you want in an ode.

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These three examples are odes because they are written about a particular subject in a varied meter.

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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.

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"Ode to the Confederate Dead"

Row after row with strict impunity

The headstones yield their names to the element,

The wind whirrs without recollection;

In the riven troughs the splayed leaves

Pile up, of nature the casual sacrament

To the seasonal eternity of death;

Then driven by the fierce scrutiny

Of heaven to their election in the vast breath,

They sough the rumour of mortality

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Sunrise (A Free Verse Inspirational Poem)

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I wrote this "poem"... (if that's what you'd call it) Anyways I thought it might help some of you out there so I decided to post it :) sorry for the abrupt ending D: This is the first time I've published my own work so please if you could...

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The period that causes laughter & joy to me is my

6th period, my teacher's name is Mr.Barro, he is the one

that teaches me grammar for at least five minutes a day.

My partner in this project has a name, it's Dustin Price. His

favorite color is blue, mine is purple. My teacher calls me

luna-una it means moon-one get it cause my name is Sundos!

Well yeah thats my life story...BYE

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The Ship of State (Odes I, 14)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

On Ship! New billows sweep thee outSeaward. What wilt thou? Hold the port, be stout
See'st not thy mast
How rent by stiff Southwestern blast?

Thy side, of rowers how forlorn?Thine hull, with groaning yards, with rigging torn,
Can ill sustain
The fierce, and ever fiercer main;

Thy gods, no more than sails entire,From whom yet once they need might aid require,
Oh Pontic Pine,
The first of woodland stocks is thine.

Yet race and name are but as dust,Not painted sterns gave storm-tost seamen trust;
Unless thou dare
To be the sport of storms, beware.

O fold at best a weary weight,A yearning care and constant strain of late,
O shun the seas
That girt those glittering Cyclades

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The three examples, are free verse poems

because there is no rhyme scheme or

rhythm.

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Feelings, Now by Katherine Foreman

Some kind of attraction that is neither

Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not

Solar, fusion, or magnetic

And it is all in my head that

I could see into his

And find myself sitting there.

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Fog by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

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From Ode to Sir Lucius Gray and Sir H. Morison
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

It is not growing like a treeIn bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an Oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear.
A Lily of a day
Is fairer far, in May
Although it fall and die that night;
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measure, life may perfect be.

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After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman

After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;

After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:

Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,

Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;

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A lyric poem, typically in the form of an address to

a particular subject, written in varied or irregular meter.