ode

ODE may refer to:

• Ohio Department of Education, the state education agency of Ohio
• Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international honor society in the field of economics
• Open Dynamics Engine, a real-time physics engine
• Ordinary differential equation, a mathematical concept
• Oregon Daily Emerald, student newspaper of the University of Oregon
• Oxford Dictionary of English, an English language dictionary
• Apache ODE, a web-services orchestration engine from the Apache Software Foundation

Ode (from ) is a type of lyrical stanza. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.