strophe
IPA: strˈoʊf
noun
- (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.
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Examples of "strophe" in Sentences
- Maybe someone can add the fourth strophe.
- Lowell later expanded it with a strophe to Lincoln.
- The content of 10th strophe is totally other as whole poem.
- Ancient Greek and Roman lyric poetry was composed in strophes.
- It has the nature of a reply and balances the effect of the strophe.
- Balassi was also the inventor of the strophe which goes by his name.
- Sometimes the strophes are interspersed with versicles from the Psalms.
- The ode generally has three parts a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.
- Every strophe is complete in itself, and independent of the preceding strophe.
- The melody of the refrain is never the same as the melody of the other strophes.
- 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.