antistrophe
Example Sentences
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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
Metrical scheme: a brief strophe and antistrophe and conclusion. iii.
From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green
His chanting and his playing answer and supplement each other, like strophe and antistrophe.
From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian
The second is only a distant imitation of the antistrophe.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
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.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
