The chorus was now singing the epode of the drama. From LearnThat.org.
(Ah woe and well – a – day! but be the issue fair!) epode. From Wordnik.com. [Agamemnon] Reference
'Horatian' ode or the complex system of strophe, antistrophe and epode of the 'Pindaric' ode, 131 ff. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The second strophe and second antistrophe are identical metrically with the first, the second epode with the first epode; and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Andromache] Reference
These have first a strophe of undetermined length, then an antistrophe identical in structure with the strophe, and then an epode, different in structure from the strophe and antistrophe. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
In contrast, the epode is written with a different scheme and structure. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
The ode generally has three parts: a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
In answer to your Lordship's objection to many-twinkling, in that beautiful epode, I will quote authority to which you will yield. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
The poet was Horace, who in the sixteenth epode had candidly expressed the fears of Roman republicans for Rome's capacity to survive. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
It is an error to call these iambic odes "irregular," although they do not follow the classic rules with strophe, antistrophe, and epode. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature] Reference
This temple is to me like some grand epode, and the poet who composed it conceived it not in feeble words but formed it out of almost immovable masses. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Odes are often intended to be recited or sung by two choruses, with the first reciting the strophe, the second the antistrophe, and both together the epode. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Not to mention how he had shackled himself with strophe, antistrophe, and epode (yet acquitting himself nobly), the nature of prophecy forbade him naming his kings. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
Lines were grouped into strophes and antistrophes, commonly in pairs and triplets, rarely in greater multiples; at times an independent strophe, like the epode of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The strophe and antistrophe look at the subject from different, often conflicting, perspectives, with the epode moving to a higher level to either view or resolve the underlying issues. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Gavin's reinstalment in the chair year after year was made by the disappointed dominie the subject of some tart verses which be called an epode, but Gavin crushed him when they were read before the club. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idyls] Reference
Gavin's reinstalment in the chair year after year was made by the disappointed dominie the subject of some tart verses which he called an epode, but Gavin crushed him when they were read before the club. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference
When the first course was taken off, the females melodiously sung us an epode in the praise of the sacrosanct decretals; and then the second course being served up, Homenas, joyful and cheery, said to one of the she-butlers, Light here, Clerica. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
Whether Octavian, and his sage adviser Maecenas, acted from the same motive we do not know, though they too had seen in Vergil's epigrams on Antony's creatures, and in Horace's sixteenth epode that the poets of the new generation seemed likely to give effective expression to political sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
Down to a glave’s estate beneath another’s heel! epode. From Wordnik.com. [Agamemnon] Reference
To wield the warrior’s arms, and guard thy regal towers? epode. From Wordnik.com. [The Persians] Reference
The unshelter’d monarch roams o’er Thracia’s dreary soil. epode. From Wordnik.com. [The Persians] Reference
The two strophes and the epode are Ps. xiv; the two antistrophes are Ps. lxx (cf. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Eclogues were not yet out, but the Culex was in circulation, and he made the pastoral scene of this the basis of an epode ” the second ” written with no little good-natured humor. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace, 658) mastered a wide range of genres (satire, ode, and epode), while the composition of Catullan love elegies was continued by Sextus Propertius (c. 5015) and Albius Tibullus (c. From Wordnik.com. [3. Civil War and Renewal, 70 B.C.E.-14 C.E] Reference
The composition of the sixteenth epode by Horace ” soon after the second, it would seem ” gave Vergil an opportunity to recognize the new poet, and answer his pessimistic appeal with the cheerful prophecy of the fourth Eclogue, as we have seen. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
It were in vain. epode. From Wordnik.com. [The Choephori] Reference
(the antistrophe), and conclude, standing still, in a different meter (the epode). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3] Reference
And now an epode to deep ears I sing. From Wordnik.com. [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference
"strophe," "antistrophe" and "epode" (sometimes called fancifully "wave,". From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
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