antistrophe

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7] [Footnote 7: The term strophe is the Greek for 'turning': the system is derived from the dance performance of Greek odes, according to which the chorus danced from the altar to the end of the orchestra in one stanza, then 'turned,' and _retraced their steps_ for the antistrophe or

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  1. noun The second stanza, and those like it, in a poem consisting of alternating stanzas in contrasting metrical form.
  2. noun The second division of the triad of a Pindaric ode, having the same stanza form as the strophe.
  3. noun The choral movement in classical Greek drama in the oppostite direction from that of the strophe.
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  • Not to mention how he had shackled himself with strophe, antistrophe, and epode (yet acquitting himself nobly), the nature of prophecy forbade him naming his kings. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • In the third antistrophe, leave me unblessed, unpitied , stood at first, leave your despairing Caradoc . —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • He felt like one of the old Greek chorus with strophe and antistrophe, and it was a weight upon his mind lest he should not laugh properly at the end. —  Authors and Friends
  • As for me, I have all sorts of pain in England—everything is against me, except a few things; and yet, while my husband and I groan at one another, strophe and antistrophe (pardon that rag of Greek!) —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
  • The ode generally has three parts: a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode. —  LearnHub Activities
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  1. Late Latin antistrophē, antistrophe of Greek tragedy, from Greek, strophic correspondence, from antistrephein, to turn back : anti-, back; see anti- + strephein, to turn; see strophe.

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀντιστροφή, literally a turning about, from ἀντιστρέφειν, turn about, from ἀντί, against, + στρέφειν, turn. Cf. strophe.
 

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