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What does epode mean?

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  1. (poetry) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.
  2. (poetry) A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.
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The antistrophe followed the strophe and preceded the epode.
The second epode prophesies, in anguish of spirit, the downfall of this country.
These poems evidently made a success, and Horace returned to the theme in his 17th epode.
He was also the first to make use of the arrangement of verses called the epode.
The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.
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.

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