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Definition of Strophe
1. Noun. One section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama.
Definition of Strophe
1. n. In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.
Definition of Strophe
1. Noun. (prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. ¹
2. Noun. (prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage. ¹
3. Noun. (prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strophe
1. a part of an ancient Greek choral ode [n -S] : STROPHIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strophe
Literary usage of Strophe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(3) As to the structure of the strophe, it is certain that the principle followed
in some cases ... In the first strophe Sion is the object, in the second ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Moreover, in the Corpus Christi sequence all the pairs of strophes are like the
first, except that the third pair consists of a strophe and antistrophe each ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Moreover, in the Corpus Christi sequence all the pairs of strophes are like the
first, except that the third pair consiste of a strophe and antistrophe each ..."
4. A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse by Francis Barton Gummere (1913)
"I. THE STANZA, OR strophe. This is a subject which presents few difficulties ;
for the ... At the end of the strophe we turn, and repeat the same ..."
5. A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse by Francis Barton Gummere (1913)
"I. THE STANZA, OR strophe. This is a subject which presents few ... At the end
of the strophe we turn, and repeat the same conditions : it is " the return ..."
6. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"CHAPTER IX THE strophe EXCEPTING vers libres, poets are under the obligation, in
non-lyrical poetry, of making use throughout the piece of one and the same ..."
7. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"... as to the last two lines of the strophe? "Evidences of iambic movement are
seen in the sequence of quantities," he tells us on p. 185. Why, of course! ..."
8. The Winchester Troper, from Mss. of the Xth and XIth Centuries: With Other by Catholic Church, Winchester Cathedral (1894)
"In by far the larger number of proses there are some strophes which are not
repeated, and in particular it is rare to find a repetition of the first strophe ..."
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