Named after the Greek poet, Pindar, the Pindaric Ode consists of a pattern of three stanzas called triads. The poem can be composed of several triads. The first triad (the strophe) and the second (antistrophe) should be metrically identical, and the third (epode) wandering off on its own metrical path
Example
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues…
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