 Archaic lyric was characterized by strophic composition and live musical performance.Some poets, like Pindar extended the metrical forms in odes to a triad, including strophe, antistrophe (metrically identical to the strophe) and epode (whose form does "not" match that of the strophe).Among the major surviving Roman poets of the classical period, only Catullus (N° 11, 17, 30, 34, 51, 61) and Horace ("Odes") wrote lyric poetry, which in the disputed view of some commentators was no longer meant to be sung but instead read or recited.