antistrophe

Example Sentences

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The deceased was the tragic hero, the survivors the innocent victims; there was the omnipresence of the deity, strophe and antistrophe of the chorus of mourners led by the preacher.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

The dancing even governed the measure of the stanzas; as the signification of the words strophe and antistrophe, plainly imports, they might be properly called danced himns.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea

The author is not quite sure what strophe and antistrophe mean, but they appear to come in tragically here.

From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines

The conversation was a prolonged paean to the host, with choral strophe and antistrophe.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various

The metrical scheme of this sonnet is an example of 'antistrophic inversion': that is, two strophes followed by their antistrophes, but the antistrophe to the second strophe precedes the antistrophe to the first.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green