epode
Example Sentences
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The poet was Horace, who in the sixteenth epode had candidly expressed the fears of Roman republicans for Rome's capacity to survive.
From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank
The second strophe and second antistrophe are identical metrically with the first, the second epode with the first epode; and so on.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
The Greek ode was commonly divided into the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode; the strophe and antistrophe being identical in structure, though varying in different odes, and the epode being of different structure.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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
In answer to your Lordship's objection to many-twinkling, in that beautiful epode, I will quote authority to which you will yield.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
