Antistrophe vs. Strophe

Antistrophenoun

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.

Antistrophenoun

The lines of this part of the choral song.

Antistrophenoun

(rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.

Antistrophenoun

(rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

Antistrophenoun

The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

Antistrophenoun

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.

Antistrophenoun

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

Antistrophenoun

the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem

Antistrophe

Antistrophe (Ancient Greek: ἀντιστροφή, ) is the portion of an ode sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west.

Strophenoun

(prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.

Strophenoun

(prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.

Strophenoun

(prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

Strophenoun

In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

Strophenoun

one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama

Strophe

A strophe () is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length.