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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ep·ode /ˈɛˌpod/
 長短句交替的抒情詩體

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ep·ode n.  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.
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