a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
"The student struggled to write an ode because she had never mastered the intricate rhyme schemes and shifting meter required for such a formal structure."
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
"The professor spent the entire lecture deriving a solution for the linear ode describing the spring-mass system."
Initialism of ordinary differential equation.
ordinary differential equation
Initialism of Oxford Dictionary of English.
"I consulted an ODE to verify the etymology of that obscure word I found in my grandmother's journal."