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- noun Plural form of
strophe .
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Examples
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The choral portions are divided into sections called strophes and antistrophes, whose meters must match exactly.
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The choral portions are divided into sections called strophes and antistrophes, whose meters must match exactly.
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The choral portions are divided into sections called strophes and antistrophes, whose meters must match exactly.
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The _Hurnen Seyfrid_ is a poem of 179 four-lined strophes which is preserved only in a print of the sixteenth century, but at least a portion of whose substance reaches back in its original form to a period preceding the composition of the Nibelungenlied.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Another amusement of Hebrew scholars has been the discovery and delimitation of "strophes" (Koester, 1831), or of larger units embracing several verses.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Occasionally such a poem will fall into verse paragraphs or 'strophes'
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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Should I consider these fragments paragraphs or strophes for instance?
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The boarding houses were sold off and deteriorated into tenements, and strikes replaced strophes.
The Labor of Living 2010
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The mistranslations are horrendous, and she rearranges the strophes to suit her wildly improbable ideas, rather than getting her ideas from the manuscripts.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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Usually there are three rhymed strophes, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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