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plural palinodes
An ode or other poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem; (loosely) a recantation. quotations examples
... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
The more lighthearted palinodes were more successful, such as Geoff Horton's recantation of his youthful view that a martini should be shaken rather than stirred.
2004, Jaspitos, "I Take It Back", in The Spectator (London, UK); Jan 24, 2004.
The close of Sins is as sober as the close of her Address to the Opposers was enthusiastic; it is almost a palinode.
2008, William McCarthy, Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment, Johns Hopkins University Press, published 2015, page 339