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Antistrophe

noun
1.
The section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem.





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"Antistrophe" Quotes from Famous Books



... whither", "Foul her life and dark her tomb, mighty army of the dead, dance like deathflies" &c.: here is genius, here is poetry, rapid, irresistible. The concluding line, is it not a personif: without use? "Nec deus intersit"—except indeed for rhyme sake. Would the laws of Strophe and antistrophe, which, if they are as unchangeable, I suppose are about as wise, [as] the Mede and Persian laws, admit of expunging that line altogether, and changing the preceding one to "and he, poor madman, deemd it quenchd in endless ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


Words linked to "Antistrophe" :   lyric, stanza, lyric poem


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