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n. A lyric poem characterized by couplets formed by a long line followed by a shorter one.

n. The third division of the triad of a Pindaric ode, having a different or contrasting form from that of the strophe and antistrophe.

n. The part of a choral ode in classical Greek drama following the strophe and antistrophe and sung while the chorus is standing still.

n. The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.

n. A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.

n. 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.

n. A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one. It does not include the elegiac distich.

n. In ancient prosody: A third and metrically different system subjoined to two systems (the strophe and antistrophe) which are metrically identical or corresponsive, and forming with them one pericope or group of systems.

n. A shorter colon, subjoined to a longer colon, and constituting one period with it; especially, such a colon, as a separate line or verse, forming either the second line of a distich or the final line of a system or stanza. As the closing verse of a system, sometimes called ephymnium.

n. A poem consisting of such distichs.

n. Specifically In music, a refrain or burden.

"This is the life I commend, this the life I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state. epode"

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