- The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the
strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe,
antistrophe, and epode. - A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a
longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It
does not include the elegiac distich.
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