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Overworked engineers going to extremes in poetry (4)

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I believe the answer is:

odes

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'poetry' is the definition.
(ode is a type of poem)

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(Other definitions for odes that I've seen before include "Lines" , "Lyrical poems" , "Works by Pindar" , "verse" , "Verses" .)

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