Even in such regular strophes as those of Keats's "Grecian Urn," who remembers that the rhyme scheme of the first stanza is unlike that of the following stanzas?
The six strophes separate naturally into two groups, in which there is a balance and correlation of parts celebrating the first three and the last three concordant steps in the creative movement--the Strophe and the Antistrophe.
The first threestrophes unfold the creative development of the receptacles: 1.
The second three strophes (or, more correctly, antistrophes) unfold the creative development of the occupants: 4.
You can divide his book by these things; it has its periods, strophes and refrains.
It is impossible to separate the section, long as it is, into subsections, or into oracles, strophes or periods.
The great fault is the frequent harshness of the style, principally in the choruses, where some strophes are almost uncouth.
Its strophes are longer and more irregular: its strain less inward and brooding, with more of lyric ardour and exaltation.
The holy father intoned the "Veni Creator Spiritus," and the choir and united assembly of prelates sung the strophes alternately to the conclusion of that sublime hymn.
The poem does not keep the same rhyme throughout, and the only reason for giving the whole of it in my English dither is that one can not get the effect of the thumping and iterate foot-beat from one or two strophes alone.
The first 7 strophes seem hardly connected with the following ones, which, as far as the 32nd consist chiefly in aphorisms with examples, some closely resembling those in the Havamal.
The title of the poem is no doubt derived from the allusion to the Sun at the beginning of strophes 39-45.
Footnote 120: In this and the four following strophes the person alluded to is their half-brother Erp, of whose story nothing more is known.
In half a dozenstrophes Massey has told a whole saga, and has found time, too, to describe "an iron hero of Norse mould.
One has but to compare the account of the end of the world as it is found in the last strophes of Völuspá, or in the Prose Edda, with the similar account in Revelations to see how much two languages may differ in this respect.
Many further strophes were added to this hymn when it became famous.
The poems consist of strophes of six or eight lines each, with little of the alliteration by which the Scalds were afterwards distinguished.
The flow of his verse in the recitative is the most pure and harmonious known in any language, and the strophes at the close of each scene are scarcely surpassed by the first masters in lyric poetry.
The versification consists ofstrophes of six or eight lines, without rhyme or alliteration.
The tablet was according to the colophon ninety-five lines in length, but only fifteen strophes of four lines each are in good preservation.
Then in strophes of five, four, and seven lines Ishtar appears singing her own praise.
This hymn opens with three strophes of four, three, and four lines respectively in praise of the goddess.
Perhaps the fact that interests the Old Testament student most in the strophic arrangement is that the number of lines in the strophes in the same hymn is by no means always uniform.
When set in their own original lines, however, the strophes appear, not of equal, but of increasing length.
Across the distance which now separated them they chanted, as it were in antiphon, the alternate strophes of Judah's dirge.
These fifteen verses fall into five strophes of three verses each, as printed by the Revised English Version.
Such a purpose and style trust little to method, and it would be useless to search for any strict division of strophes in the passage.
Divine Voice, or the Prophet speaking for it, resumes in strophes iv.
All through these two strophes the strength of the passion, the intolerance of further captivity, the fierceness of the exultation of vengeance, are very remarkable.
It is even more difficult to draw a sharp line of distinction when the stropheshave an odd number of lines.
There were several strophes of this heavenly poetry.
The metre is Antique Rhythm (above, page 242): the successive strophes augment with the growing fulness of the theme.
Besides the pair of strophes there may be an introduction, or conclusion, or both.
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.
Nay, were it too much to ask of an august National Representation that it also went with us to the ci-devant Cathedral called of Notre-Dame, and executed a few strophes in worship of her?
In the poem as adapted for music they alternate in sixteen strophes and antistrophes.
The odes are divided as usual into strophes and antistrophes, assigned alternately to a male chorus of fifteen and full chorus.
The metrical arrangement of this poem into strophes with a constant refrain is very unusual in the poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, though it is common among their Scandinavian kinsmen.
The first three strophes refer to the widely known story of Weland, or Wayland, the Vulcan of Norse myth.
It exemplifies in not fewer than one hundred and two strophes the use of as many kinds of metre, many of them being accompanied by a prose commentary of greater or less length.
In a few scattered instances we find strophes that rhyme throughout in the caesura as well as at the end of lines;[10] occasionally the first and second lines, or still less frequently the third and fourth, alone have caesural rhyme.
The first attempt at a complete metrical translation was made in 1848 by Jonathan Birch, who however only reproduces Lachmann's twenty lieder, with some fifty-one strophes added on his own account.
The LXX offers nothing here in lieu of the lost verses; but the Massoretic text has the strophes which occur in the Authorised Version (xxxi.
That the strophes consisted of four lines is a discovery of Prof.
Agur, written in strophesof six lines, the rules for a king and the praise of a good housewife.
Again, all Agur's proverbs are in the form of strophes of six lines each; but this passage consists of five distichs.
Ewald and others had conjectured long before that the colloquies of Job were in verse, but their attempts to reduce them to strophes were of a nature to weaken rather than confirm the theory.
The ethics open with six metrical strophes composed, so to say, in the minor key, which harmonises with the disheartening conclusions of the foregoing.
It is raised to a degree akin to certainty by the actual occurrence of Indian images, similes, and even concrete aphorisms in the short fragment of seven strophes preserved to us in the Book of Proverbs.
Two strophesare wanting here, in which Job presumably says that this great change of fortune is not the result of his conduct.
They are not even in the same metre as Job, but contain strophesof three lines only.
About seven strophes in the same quasi-impious strain, characterising the real reign of Jehovah upon earth as distinguished from the optimistic delineations of Job's friends, are lost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strophes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
