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• STROPHE (Gr. o-rpod>)

STROPHE (Gr. o-rpod>)  , from orpE4ecv, to turn), a See also:

• TERM

term in' versification which properly means a turn, as from one See also:

• FOOT

foot to another, or from one See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of a See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus to the other . In its precise choral significance a See also:

• STROPHE (Gr. o-rpod>)

strophe was a definite See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section in the structure of an See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode, when, as in See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton's famous phrase in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to See also:

• SAMSON (1135-1211)
• SAMSON (cf. Heb. shemesh, " sun ")
• SAMSON, JOSEPH ISIDORE (1793-1871)

Samson Agonistes, " strophe, See also:

• ANTISTROPHE

antistrophe and See also:

• EPODE

epode were a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of stanzas framed only for the See also:

• MUSIC

music." In a more See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general sense the strophe is a collection of various prosodical periods combined into a structural unit . In See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• POETRY

poetry the strophe usually becomes identical with the See also:

• STANZA (Low Lat. stantia, Ital. stantia or stanza)

stanza, and it is the arrangement and the recurrence of the rhymes which give it its See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . But the ancients called a See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse-periods a See also:

• SYSTEM

system, and gave the name strophe to such a system only when it was repeated once or more in unmodified See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . It is said that See also:

• ARCHILOCHUS

Archilochus first created the strophe by binding together systems of two or three lines . But it was the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek ode-writers who introduced the practice of strophe-See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing on a large See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale, and the See also:

• ART

art was attributed to See also:

• STESICHORUS (c. 640–555 B.C.)

Stesichorus, although it is probable that earlier poets were acquainted with it . The arrangement of an ode in a splendid and consistent artifice of strophe, See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-strophe and epode was carried to its height by See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar (see ODE) . With the development of Greek See also:

• PROSODY (Gr. rpovwSta)

prosody, various See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar strophe-forms came into general See also:

• ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

acceptance, and were made celebrated by the frequency with which leading poets employed them . Among these were the Sapphic, the Elegiac, the Alcaic and the Asclepiadean strophe, all of them prominent in Greek and Latin verse . The briefest and the most See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient strophe is the dactylic distich, which consists of two verses of the same class of See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm, the second producing a melodic counterpart to the first . The forms in modern See also:

• ENGLISH

English verse which reproduce most exactly the impression aimed at by the ancient ode-strophe are the elaborate rhymed stanzas of such poems as the " See also:

• NIGHTINGALE (O. Eng. Nihtegale, literally " singer of the night ")
• NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE (1820–191o)

Nightingale " of See also:

• KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821)

Keats or the " See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

Scholar-Gypsy " of See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew See also:

• ARNOLD
• ARNOLD, BENEDICT (1741-1801)
• ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)
• ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)
• ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2)
• ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904)
• ARNOLD, THOMAS (1745-1842)

Arnold (see VERSE) .