The epode is the concluding section of a Greek choral ode, coming after the strophe and antistrophe. It often breaks the pattern set by those earlier parts and brings the ode to a close. In Horace and other Latin poets, epode can also name a short poem or stanza built from a repeated pair of lines, often in iambic meter.
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“At o Deorum quicquid in coelo regit
Terras et humanum genus.”
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Example
Strophe: We turn to the sea and praise its silver motion
Antistrophe: We turn from the sea and hear the wind return
Epode: Now stillness gathers; the harbor holds its breath