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epode

/ep-ohd/US // ˈɛp oʊd //UK // (ˈɛpəʊd) //

磊落,磊磊,磊子,磊落度

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
    • : the part of a lyric ode following the strophe and antistrophe and composing with them a triadic unit.

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Examples

  • The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.

  • In Latin poetry the epode was cultivated, in conscious archaism, both as a part of the ode and as an independent branch of poetry.

  • The second Epode prophesies, in anguish of spirit, the downfall of this country.

  • Not now, for he moaned me his last epode and ended like the swan.

  • This ode consists of strophe, epode, antistrophe, and second epode.