strophe

Example Sentences

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This is the center of the middle strophe of these three songs, the creation of a third person by a couple.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

Ode one/nine is written in Alcaics, a four-lined, largely dactylic strophe named after the Greek poet Alcaeus: it's the commonest verse-form in the Odes, a flexible form-for-all-seasons.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

In his mind, at these unkind words, he heard the dwindling strophe of the heart's small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take one old derelict singing a strophe of a religious anthem in a raspy voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

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