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Definition of Antistrophes
1. antistrophe [n] - See also: antistrophe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antistrophes
Literary usage of Antistrophes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Les problèmes d'Aristote by Aristotle, Jules Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire (1891)
"... qui comportent des antistrophes : accord et unisson; chant à l'octave ; fantes
du chant plus sensibles dans le ton grave ; mesure plus ou moins bien ..."
2. An Examination of the Shelley Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library by Blaise Pascal, Zacharie Tourneur, Didier Anzieu, Stoke Newington (London, England). Public Libraries Committee, John Humphreys Whitfield, Charles Dealtry Locock, Bodleian Library (1903)
"How, then, should he designate the two remaining antistrophes ? Being repetitions,
from a metrical point of view, of antistrophes 1 and 2, they might be ..."
3. The Classical Journal (1813)
"is divided by Mr. Hermann into eleven strophes, and as many antistrophes, ...
The antistrophes are interspersed among the strophes without any method or ..."
4. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"... antistrophe, and epode, the strophes and antistrophes containing twelve verses,
the epodes seventeen, all in varying metrical schemes; the third, ..."
5. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"The metrical form consists of strophes and antistrophes, which are connected in
... Instead, however, of the same scheme of strophes and antistrophes being ..."
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