epode

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The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

This lofty rhyme is built up of strophes, anti-strophes, and an epode.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 by Various

To Sicily we trace the germs of Greek comedy, and the addition of the epode to the strophe and anti-strophe.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

As Milton says, “strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music then used with the chorus that sang.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

It is an error to call these iambic odes “irregular,” although they do not follow the classic rules with strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry