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

We may yield to no one in the delight of tracing the exact correspondence of strophe and antistrophe in a Greek chorus, the subtle vowel-music of a Latin hymn or a passage of Rossetti's.

From Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series by Saintsbury, George

Behold, O King from the dark House of the grave, what we do! antistrophe.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Blood and sap raced gloriously together, while a chorus of conscious and unconscious creation sang the anthem of the Spring in solemn strophe and antistrophe.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

And all the gapers, who had nothing of their own to suggest, answered with the antistrophe, “Who could it be?”

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir