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长短句交替的抒情诗体

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Epode \Ep"ode\, n. [L. epodos, Gr. ?, fr. ?, adj., singing to,
   sung or said after, fr. ? to sing to; 'epi` upon, to + ? to
   sing: cf. F. ['e]pode. See {Ode}.] (Poet.)
   (a) 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.
   (b) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in
       which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as,
       the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac
       distich.