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  • The strophe and the antistrophe had the same number of lines, and the meter was also the same; the epode had a different number of lines and a different meter.
  • Safe from the toils of war her homeward-marching train. antistrophe 1 The Persians
  • And lay their rampired towers in ruins on the ground. antistrophe 2 The Persians
  • The dance consisted of three sections: strophe, antistrophe and epode.
  • The cause of all our wo, is red with Persian gore. antistrophe 2 The Persians
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  • In each set of three the first stanza is called the strophe (turn), being intended, probably, for chanting as the chorus moved in one direction; the second stanza is called the antistrophe, chanted as the chorus executed a second, contrasting, movement; and the third stanza the epode, chanted as the chorus stood still. A History of English Literature
  • ANTISTROPHE, the counter-turn, or stanza answering to the first, of a The Principles of English Versification
  • Even 'the college prizeman, and the college tutor cannot read a chorus in the Trilogy but what his mind instinctively wanders on optatives, choriambi, and that happy conjecture of Smelfungus in the antistrophe.' [ The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
  • /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. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
  • The signs denoting the end of a strophe or antistrophe (_paragraphus_), of an epode (_coronis_), or of an ode (_asterisk_), are often omitted by the scribe, and, when employed, are sometimes placed incorrectly, or employed in an irregular manner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
  • The dance consisted of three sections: strophe, antistrophe and epode.
  • 'Horatian' ode or the complex system of strophe, antistrophe and epode of the 'Pindaric' ode, 131 ff. The Principles of English Versification
  •       By two usurpers, sin – defiled —     An evil path of woe and bane! antistrophe 1 The Choephori
  • Or painful life support beneath such weight of woe? antistrophe 1 Sophocles : Philoctetes
  • 'Horatian' ode or the complex system of strophe, antistrophe and epode of the 'Pindaric' ode, 131 ff. The Principles of English Versification
  • All hail! for doom hath passed from him, my well – loved lord! antistrophe 3 The Choephori
  • In another, two or three burning glasses, wherewith he made both men and women sometimes mad, and in the church put them quite out of countenance; for he said that there was but an antistrophe, or little more difference than of a literal inversion, between a woman folle a la messe and molle a la fesse, that is, foolish at the mass and of a pliant buttock. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  •       Unto the dawning light of liberty; antistrophe 2 The Choephori
  • They are ritual phrases which the listener soon learns to anticipate until, eventually, the child and the teller are enacting a dialogue, strophe and antistrophe, in which understanding what the sentence means has little place.
  • Of the three parts of the ode, the _strophe_, the _antistrophe_, and the _epode_, each was to be sung at a particular part of the procession. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • The antistrophe, which contains the words of Agamemnon, is spoken (more than recited) by a single male voice.
  • Into pervading, waxing pangs of pain. antistrophe 3 The Choephori
  • In another, two or three burning glasses, wherewith he made both men and women sometimes mad, and in the church put them quite out of countenance; for he said that there was but an antistrophe, or little more difference than of a literal inversion, between a woman folle a la messe and molle a la fesse, that is, foolish at the mass and of a pliant buttock. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • The transition from De Quincey's childhood to his opium-experiences is as natural, therefore, as from strophe to antistrophe in choral antiphonies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
  • The signs denoting the end of a strophe or antistrophe (_paragraphus_), of an epode (_coronis_), or of an ode (_asterisk_), are often omitted by the scribe, and, when employed, are sometimes placed incorrectly, or employed in an irregular manner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
  • These have first a strophe of undetermined length, then an antistrophe identical in structure with the strophe, and then an epode, different in structure from the strophe and antistrophe. The Principles of English Versification
  • This was a ‘regular ode’ in that it closely followed Pindar's scheme of all strophes and antistrophes conforming to one stanzaic pattern, and all epodes following another.
  • This was a ‘regular ode’ in that it closely followed Pindar's scheme of all strophes and antistrophes conforming to one stanzaic pattern, and all epodes following another.
  • In the unwholesome pool, or ever – stagnant lake. antistrophe 2 Sophocles : Philoctetes

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