epode

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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 Wragg, H.

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 Baum, Paull Franklin

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 Latin poetry the epode was cultivated, in conscious archaism, both as a part of the ode and as an independent branch of poetry.

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

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 Alden, Raymond MacDonald