Epode

According to one meaning of the word, an epode^[1] is the third part of an ancient Greek choral ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe and completes the movement.^[2]

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.^[3] (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as in Horace's Epodes), to refer to poems written in such stanzas.

^ From Greek: ἐπῳδός, epodos, "singing to/over, an enchanter."
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Epode". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 707.
^ West, M. L. (1987). An Introduction to Greek Metre. Oxford.; p. 31.

[1] From Greek: ἐπῳδός, epodos, "singing to/over, an enchanter."

[EB1911-2] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Epode". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 707.

[3] West, M. L. (1987). An Introduction to Greek Metre. Oxford.; p. 31.

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