Antistrophe

Antistrophe 2a (the second member of the group) there is a general correspondence with, in one particular, a subtle modification.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

As to Antistrophe 2b, that follows Antistrophe 2a, so far as it goes; but after line 9 it breaks off suddenly, and closes with two lines corresponding in length and rhyme to the closing couplet of Antistrophe

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Antistrophe beta gamma, Antistrophe beta gamma, Antistrophe alpha gamma,

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Epode 2 alpha, Strophe alpha 1, Strophe beta 2, Antistrophe alpha gamma,

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Strophes have a correspondent resemblance in their str [u] cture and numbers: and the Antistrophe and Epode also bear the same similitude.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

In the second Antistrophe the Bard thus marks the progress of Poetry.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

_Antistrophe_, for so is the figures name in Greeke: one vpon the mutable loue of a Lady, another vpon the meritorious loue of Christ our Sauiour, thus.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The Poet seems, in the first Ode particularly, to design the Epode as a complete air to the Strophe and Antistrophe, which have more the appearance of Recitative.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

The Greekes call this figure _Antistrophe_, the Latines, _conuersio_, I following the originall call him the _counterturne_, because he turnes counter in the middest of euery meetre.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

A late historian characterizes him as "the first to break the monotony of the choral song, which had consisted previously of nothing more than one uniform stanza, by dividing it into the Strophe, the Antistrophe, and the Epodus -- the turn, the return, and the rest."

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson