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Sentence Examples
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 antistrophe followed the strophe and preceded the epode.
These three parts corresponded to the movement of the chorus to one side of the stage, then to the other, and their pause midstage to deliver the epode.
Epode, a verse form composed of two lines differing in construction and often in metre, the second shorter than the first.
Examples from Classical Literature
The second epode prophesies, in anguish of spirit, the downfall of this country.
He was also the first to make use of the arrangement of verses called the epode.
The shorter line is called an epode, or appendix, to the longer, and it is from this that the collection of poems gets its name.
These poems evidently made a success, and Horace returned to the theme in his 17th epode.
The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.
In Latin poetry the epode was cultivated, in conscious archaism, both as a part of the ode and as an independent branch of poetry.
This lofty rhyme is built up of strophes, anti-strophes, and an epode.
This ode consists of strophe, epode, antistrophe, and second epode.
