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
Take one old derelict singing a strophe of a religious anthem in a raspy voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silliest shots: the hysterical colonist who complains that Africa is strangling him; Baclanova whimpering with passion to the strophe of African drums.
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
Vocabulary lists containing strophe
Reading: Literature - Drama - High School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - High School
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