28 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

In Ancient Greek, dithyrambo was a poem honoring  Dionysis, the god of wine and fertility.

Ah, no wonder it's both inspired and enthusiastic.  

If you're looking for examples of a dithyramb, try Friedrich Nietzsche's Dithyrambs of Dionysus or Gabriele d'Annunzio's Alcyone. 

There was an old sailor named Ed,

Without a single tooth in his head...