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Meanings of strophe in English
Synonyms
Examples for "stanza"
Examples for "stanza"
1
Point out the fitness of the two similes in the second stanza.
2
The first half-stanza of this song is old; the rest is mine.
3
Seclusion and abandonment of the artificial are also extolled in stanza xv:-
4
Take first the more familiar of the stanza forms of English verse.
5
The second stanza is the one most generally recognized and oftenest quoted:
1
In melody and stanzaic form, we shall see that the two poems are not unlike, but in motive they are totally distinct.
2
The English "Horatian" ode, then, while exhibiting the greatest differences in complexity of stanzaic forms, is "homostrophic."
Usage of strophe in English
1
After the hexameter the most frequently imitated metre is the Sapphic strophe.
2
Pissin gives the number of verse and strophe forms on p. 266.
3
Then play up your strophe so we may hear if you lie.
4
It is like the strophe and anti-strophe in a Greek chorus.
5
To the Canticle of the Sun he added a new strophe:
6
The following strophe is of this species, which Horace calls Alcaei minaces camenae-
7
He called upon her to save their little band by singing a strophe.
8
In the passage in the "Opferlied," 2d strophe, where it runs thus:-
9
The last strophe of the choral service can be heard from across the courtyard.
10
Slowly the strophe and antistrophe of frogs and goat-suckers resumed possession of his consciousness.
11
Why, from Susan Bates, to be sure-andin this very place: strophe and antistrophe.
12
His chanting and his playing answer and supplement each other, like strophe and antistrophe.
13
Sometimes the strophe seems to contain four lines, sometimes more.
14
Love's a strophe amid the bloom of lost heavens.
15
Rhyme and strophe are given up, only rhythm remains.
16
Eloise was radiant, for her heart was singing within her a splendid strophe of joy.
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Strophe through the time
Strophe across language varieties
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