Preposition: of

• praise: What is unusual is to find a paean of praise on the stone.

• love: He is also aware that the play is more than a simple paean of romantic love.

Adjective modifier

• great: The epic of Gilgamesh - the oldest surviving epic poem and greatest paean to friendship in literature containing the pre-biblical sources of The Flood.

• enthusiastic: Indeed, todayâs Daily Telegraph contains as equally an enthusiastic paean to the book by Lady Antonia Fraser.

• heartbreaking: Other songs like opener ' Rain Fall Down ' and set closer ' On My Own ' are heartbreaking paeans to loneliness.

• witty: It is nearly 20 years since Bill Bryson first penned his deliciously witty paean to precision Troublesome Words.