Definitions for "Palinode"
Keywords:  recants, retracts, poem, ode, writer
An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
a recantation of something said formerly, and here the statement 'nothing stands but for his scythe to mow' is denied by the next line with 'my verse shall stand'