Associations to the word «Strophe»

Wiktionary

STROPHE, noun. (prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
STROPHE, noun. (prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
STROPHE, noun. (prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

Dictionary definition

STROPHE, noun. One section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope