epode

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As Milton says, “strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music then used with the chorus that sang.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

The Greek ode was commonly divided into the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode; the strophe and antistrophe being identical in structure, though varying in different odes, and the epode being of different structure.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

He was also the first to make use of the arrangement of verses called the epode.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

Stars now they sparkle In the northern Heaven— The guard Arcturus, The guard-watch'd Bear. epode.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew