The haiku, a Japanese form, is one of the shortest types of lyric poetry. In Japanese, the haiku consists of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7, and the third 5. Other lyric forms are longer and more complicated than the haiku. The ode is a serious, elaborate lyric full of high praise and noble feeling.
Many odes mark important public events.
The classical ode, also called the Pindaric ode or choral ode, was developed by the ancient Greeks. It consists of three parts. The first two parts, the strophe and antistrophe, have the same pattern of rhyme. The third part, the epode, has a different pattern. Most odes that were developed later consist of stanzas with the same pattern of rhythm and rhyme.