EPODE


Meaning of EPODE in English

noun the after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, — the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

2. epode ·noun a species of lyric poem, invented by archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the epodes of horace. it does not include the elegiac distich.

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