strophe

• The first strophe is eminently happy; in the second he has a little strayed from Pindar's meaning, who says, "If thou, my soul, wishest to speak of games, look not in the desert sky for a planet hotter than the sun; nor shall we tell of nobler games than those of Olympia." —  Lives of the Poets
• Mireio's prayer in the tenth canto is in five-syllable verse with rhymes abbab The poems of the Isclo d'Or offer over eighty varieties of strophe, a most remarkable number. —  Frederic Mistral
• 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)
• Our strophe, the "new song" elicited by the work of the Lamb, describes the seer's present, the same age in which the people of every tribe and tongue are being called into a new community. —  Insurgent American
• The ode generally has three parts: a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode. —  LearnHub Activities

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