Epode

According to one meaning of the word, an epode is the third part of an ancient Greek choral ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe and completes the movement.

For the child-obesity-prevention organisation, see EPODE International Network. For the collection of poems by Horace, see Epodes (Horace).

The word epode is also used to refer to the second (shorter) line of a two-line stanza of the kind composed by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter. (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as in Horace's Epodes), to refer to poems written in such stanzas.

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