choric

How To Use choric In A Sentence

• We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
• We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
• Its swift movement, the rapid rise and fall of a rhythmic pattern and its suitability for choric recitation have made it one of our dearest poems. News at Eleven: [Walt] Whitman's deep influence on Nazrul Islam
• The dithyramb (_dithyrambos_ or Bacchic step, [- '' -]) brought a new step to the dance and therefore a new element into poetry, for all dances were choric, that is to say they were sung as well as danced. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
• The story is presented by nine choric dancers who, in their dark glasses and black skullcaps, resemble a sinister Gallic mime troupe.
• Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid.
• Hellenistic and Roman times, “lyric poetry” meant poetry, whether monodic or choric, (originally) sung; it did not include elegy or iambics. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• He praises her perfection in hyperbolic, mythological terms in the long speech which precedes the choric conclusion to the play.
• All this matters because it lends Chris's endless refrain of "dat ole devil, sea" a choric power. Anna Christie – review
• Let me create these choric codas throughout the manuscript that would signal mood changes and serve as epigraphic accents at key points in the manuscript. 2007 March : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2