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Yeats's top poem with Latin form of singing (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yodel

'form of singing' is the definition.

'yeats's top poem with latin' is the wordplay.
'top' indicates taking the first letters (in a down clue, the first letter is top).
'poem' becomes 'ode' (ode is a type of poem).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'latin' becomes 'l'.
The first letter of 'yeats' is 'y'.
'y'+'ode'+'l'='YODEL'

(Other definitions for yodel that I've seen before include "Sing using falsetto" , "Sing like Frank Ifield?" , "Alpine warble" , "Sing in Tyrolean fashion" , "Sing like the Lonely Goatherd?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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