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| 1. | Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one. |
| 2. | the part of a lyric ode following the strophe and antistrophe and composing with them a triadic unit. |
| ep·ode (ěp'ōd') n.
[Latin epōdos, a type of lyric poem, from Greek epōidos, sung after, from epaeidein, epāidein, to sing after : epi-, epi- + aeidein, to sing; see wed-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
epode
a verse form composed of two lines differing in construction and often in metre, the second shorter than the first. In Greek lyric odes, an epode is the third part of the three-part structure of the poem, following the strophe and the antistrophe. The word is from the Greek epoidos, "sung" or "said after."
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