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Ode vs Epode - What's the difference?

ode | epode |

As nouns the difference between ode and epode

is that ode is a short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style while epode is the after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.

ode

English

(wikipedia ode)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
    • Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats

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    epode

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetry) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.
  • (poetry) A kind of lyric poem, invented by (Archilochus), in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.