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  • noun Plural form of epode.

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Examples

  • You are the catz pajamz, My Dear Sweet Ma'amz; and, I look forward to your dissertation which will, I am sure, include odes and epodes to our great nation?

    Triple play ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • The metrical structure of each stanza is elaborate (differing in different poems), but metrically all the strophes and antistrophes in any given poem must be exactly identical with each other and different from the epodes.

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • Like others, however, I learned by heart all Horace's odes and epodes, the Ajax and the Antigone of Sophocles, and other like efforts of memory, almost useless in after life, except for capping quotations, and thereby being thought a pedant by the display of schoolboy erudition.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • His stanzas are too long, especially his epodes; the ode is finished before the ear has learned its measures, and, consequently, before it can receive pleasure from their consonance and recurrence.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

  • His stanzas are too long, especially his epodes; the ode is finished before the ear has learned its measures, and consequently before it can receive pleasure from their consonance and recurrence.

    Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Probably epodes and satires were the first fruits of his pen, though some scholars ascribe certain of the _Odes_ (_e. g._ i.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

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