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Definition of Strophes
1. strophe [n] - See also: strophe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strophes
Literary usage of Strophes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Moreover, in the Corpus Christi sequence all the pairs of strophes are like the
first, except that the third pair consists of a strophe and antistrophe each ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Moreover, in the Corpus Christi sequence all the pairs of strophes are like the
first, except that the third pair consists of a strophe and antistrophe each ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Moreover, in the Corpus Christi sequence all the pairs of strophes are like the
first, except that the third pair consiste of a strophe and antistrophe each ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer (1911)
"According to him the prophet wrote in strophes usually of four half lines each;
only four strophes of the thirty-four have six half lines each. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It comprises three strophes of four verses in Classical iambic dimeter, ...
Two of the added strophes may be quoted here to illustrate the possible reason ..."
6. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"Another favourite practice of the trouveres, which has its equivalent in Provençal
lyric poetry, was to divide the totality of strophes into two, three, ..."
7. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"239), a piece in eighteen strophes, but made up, so far as its form is concerned,
of two separate pieces with independent refrains, one constant to eleven ..."
8. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"Those in the four-foot line are the long poem of fifteen strophes beginning " Sen
... 239), a piece in eighteen strophes, but made up, so far as its form is ..."
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