epode
/ep-ohd/US // ˈɛp oʊd //UK // (ˈɛpəʊd) //
磊落,磊磊,磊子,磊落度
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n.名词 noun
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- : 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.
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