strophe

IPA: strˈoʊf

(prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
(prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
(prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

Examples of "strophe" in Sentences

Lyric's raw phonemic matter precedes and equips every strophe as well as the odd apostrophe.
The term strophe has come to be used also for verse paragraphs where there is no antistrophic arrangement.
I brought a tape recorder to her house one day, and she read a lovely strophe on love and the stark beauty of winter.
Chanting and moving as a unit, the chorus would proceed in one direction (movement called the strophe), turn back using the same meter
In acrostic poems the rhyme is sometimes supplied by the corresponding letter of the alphabet; thus the first strophe rhymes with a, the second with b, etc.
In the original the opening strophe, which is altogether more regular than the average and is, moreover, one of the few that have also complete caesural rhyme, is as follows:
There are two lead choirs: bunches of monks gathered in columns around the lectern of each transept, with the choirmaster who intones the strophe and the choir that catches the tune and makes it blossom in melodies and chords.
In each set of three the first stanza is called the strophe (turn), being intended, probably, for chanting as the chorus moved in one direction; the second stanza is called the antistrophe, chanted as the chorus executed a second, contrasting, movement; and the third stanza the epode, chanted as the chorus stood still.