epode

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

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

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

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 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

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