| 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. |
| He was also the first to make use of the arrangement of verses called the epode. |
| In Latin poetry the epode was cultivated, in conscious archaism, both as a part of the ode and as an independent branch of poetry. |
| In Greek lyric odes, an epode is the third part of the three-part structure of the poem, following the strophe and the antistrophe. |
| Epode, a verse form composed of two lines differing in construction and often in metre, the second shorter than the first. |
| The antistrophe followed the strophe and preceded the epode. |
