By a series of reckless conjectures Hartung extricated strophe and antistrophe out of the lines, while Blass’ (Philol.
Epic poets must needs employ the hexameter line: the writers of lyric verse must make antistrophe correspond to strophe, however greatly they may strive for liberty in other respects.
These have first a strophe of undetermined length, then an antistrophe identical in structure with the strophe, and then an epode, different in structure from the strophe and antistrophe.
The second strophe and second antistrophe are identical metrically with the first, the second epode with the first epode; and so on.
Yet I know that manifold Days, like sand, have waxen old Since the day those shoreward-thrown Cables flapped and line on line Standing forth for Ilion The long galleys took the brine [Antistrophe 1.
Lo, when famine stalketh near, One good gift of Zeus again From the furrows of one year Endeth quick the starving pain; [Antistrophe 2.
The antistrophe seems to find a meaning in the name Paris or Alexandras, where the etymology is not so clear.
The Strophes have a correspondent resemblance in their str[u]cture and numbers: and the Antistrophe and Epode also bear the same similitude.
In the secondAntistrophe the Bard thus marks the progress of Poetry.
As Milton says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music then used with the chorus that sang.
The metrical scheme of this sonnet is an example of 'antistrophic inversion': that is, two strophes followed by their antistrophes, but the antistrophe to the second strophe precedes the antistrophe to the first.
Metrical scheme: a brief strophe and antistrophe and conclusion.
Antistrophe Is the LORD displeased against the rivers?
The lines of invocation are not counted in strophe and antistrophe 2.
Then the Antistrophe asks what had become of the former copy of the same, on its way to the sources of the Thames and the great seat of learning there established.
In the first place, they make an antistrophe and turn it against us.
The antistrophe represents an analogous or contrasting idea, which is, like the former, the sum or product of another sheaf of ideas, and answers to the former in some or all of its component parts.
Strophe and antistrophe are modelled on the same pattern, not in rhythm and syntax alone, but in idea.
The strophe and antistrophe correspond in metre, in form, and in the division of the periods; they frequently correspond in substance also; and this correspondence is often marked by verbal consonance or assonance.
In the strophe we have the shy and timid fawn which takes flight from the pasture and rejoices at her escape from the pursuit of the hunters, in the antistrophe the presumptuous man who transgresses the laws of nature and custom.
Antistrophe IV What mortal man then doth not bow in awe And fear before all this, Hearing from me the destined ordinance Assigned me by the Gods?
Antistrophe II: same rhythm, but evolutions leading back from Left of Orchestra to central Altar.
Accordingly they address themselves to a Full Choral Ode, the evolutions carrying them to the extreme Left of the Orchestra in the Strophe, and in the Antistrophe back to the Altar.
Antistrophe III: evolutions repeated, but from Right back to Altar.
Antistrophe I: evolutions front Right back to Altar, rhythm as in Strophe.
The 2d Antistrophe (what is the meaning of these things?
The Greek ode was commonly divided into the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode; the strophe and antistrophe being identical in structure, though varying in different odes, and the epode being of different structure.
The antistrophe corresponds metrically to the strophe, as usual; the epodes are in four-stress couplets.
