Dictionary Entry
A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
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Poetry examples for “strophe”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Dont la divine odeur la retient et l'attire
Et le fait, dans la strophe en fleurs qu'il ensoleille,
Mystérieusement vibrer comme une abeille.
Read full poem →STROPHE View the wither’d Beldam’s face;
Can thy keen inspection trace
Read full poem →stanzas; for he saw that the difference of languages required a different
mode of versification. The first strophe is eminently happy; in the
second he has a little strayed from Pindar’s meaning, who says, “If thou,
Read full poem →nearly, than any other poetry they had heard, to the style of our Bible,
in the prophetic books. The first strophe will suffice as a specimen: