antistrophes

He wrote part of ‘Seneca, or the Fatal Bath,’ and ‘Ariadne in Naxos;’ classical pieces, with choruses and strophes and antistrophes, which sadly puzzled poor Mrs. Pendennis; and began a ‘History of the Jesuits,’ in which he lashed that Order with tremendous severity, and warned his Protestant fellow-countrymen of their machinations.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Something of the formal beauty, of the strophes and antistrophes, of Apache oratory transcended the gulfs of culture and language; even as Cochise spoke, the listeners were moved.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Something of the formal beauty, of the strophes and antistrophes, of Apache oratory transcended the gulfs of culture and language; even as Cochise spoke, the listeners were moved.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

He was in the chorus; the first line of the antistrophes.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

The metrical structure of each stanza is elaborate (differing in different poems), but metrically all the strophes and antistrophes in any given poem must be exactly identical with each other and different from the epodes.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Greek chorus, was used between one or more strophes and the corresponding antistrophes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

If this explanation is right, there is no ground for the suggestion that sequences without parallel strophes are older than those with them; they may date from the same period, but they had a very short life, as sequences without symmetrical pairs of strophes soon became so unusual that antistrophes were added to those earlier without them.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Lines were grouped into strophes and antistrophes, commonly in pairs and triplets, rarely in greater multiples; at times an independent strophe, like the epode of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

For this hymn of the primal gods was now substituted the hideous strophes and antistrophes of the grimy spirits of darkest New York.

The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890

Mr Arnold himself, as might have been expected from his previous experiments in unrhymed Pindarics, has given us strophes and antistrophes most punctiliously equivalent in syllables; but sometimes with hardly any, and never with very much, vesture of poetry about them.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889