An ode is a long lyric poem, serious in subject, elevated in style, and written in highly formal stanzas. Many Romantic odes begin with an aspect of the landscape and, through a process of meditation, use this to attempt to resolve a personal or universal problem. In other words, do not stop automatically at the end of each line, stop only when there is a comma, colon, period, or other concluding mark. A line that ends with a concluding mark is called an end-stopped line . Meter Meter is the regular rhythmic unit in a poetic line.
Meter is determined by the relation between stronger and weaker stresses or accents in syllables.
A poetic line is scanned in units of metrical feet . A foot is the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that is the recurrent rhythmic unit of the line. The poem is thus written in iambic pentameter. Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme in a poem, determined by assigning letters of the alphabet to each rhymed line. This is supposedly the rhythm that comes closest to the natural rhythms of English speech.