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.
Throughout the poem nearly every line is complete by itself and there is no strophic arrangement.
Accordingly if one may draw a conclusion from Assyrian usage for the Old Testament, the effort often so zealously made to restore by elimination of lines a uniform strophic arrangement, is a grievous error.
It is a hymn twenty-nine lines in length, of definite strophic arrangement, addressed directly to Marduk, and followed by exorcisms of various demons.
Both appear to be constructed in strophic form, a feature rare elsewhere in Anglo-Saxon poetry, while Deor also has a refrain, which is almost without parallel.
The strophic character of all Norse poetry is generally held to point to a choric origin, and it may very well be that this primitive type of poetry was the only one used in Norway when the heroic stories first became known there.
With the rhetoric greater liberty has been used; sometimes the original metre has been followed, but more often not; and an occasional attempt has been made to bring out the strophic correspondence in the Irish.
The little Son flings himself passionately on the corpse [the metre breaking out into strophic alternations.
The Chorus breaking into Strophic Lyrics vow vengeance and long train of ills on the city for this, Athene (in Blank Verse) propitiating them, and pleading that the cause has been fairly tried.
The whole dialogue falls into lyrical measures with strophic alternations just perceptible.
For though a single family, that of the Kanvas, at least predominates among its authors, the prevalence in it of the strophic form of composition impresses upon it a character of its own.
The latter strophic type goes by the name of Pragatha, and is found chiefly in the eighth book of the Rigveda.
Kanva family, while in the hymns composed by some of these Kanvas the favouritestrophic metre of the eighth book reappears.
The strophic form of the popular song points to the same phenomenon, which I always beheld with astonishment, till at last I found this explanation.
As the concatenation brings about the conjunction of two strophes, so the inclusion constitutes the boundary line that cuts one strophic organism off from the next.
The concatenation obliterates the distinctive character of two separate strophic organisms, the inclusion rounds off and defines a strophe, or group of strophes, and emphasises its distinctive character.
The poem is in the main strophic and the melody is of similar nature.
In the villanelle the influence of the strophic folk song is clearly perceptible.
There is a third form of speech which is neither prose nor verse, but partakes of the character of both, a sort of irregular, rhymeless verse, without strophic division and exceedingly rich in alliteration, internal rhyme and assonance.
The verse-structure is very intricate and is mostly in strophic form composed of verses of fixed syllabic length, rhymed and richly furnished with alliteration.
They are written in French strophic forms in the southern dialect, and sometimes have an intermixture of French and Latin lines.
This metre, also, is in narrative poetry employed without strophic arrangement; but in lyrical poetry it is sometimes written in stanzas.
The first mark of this influence was that end-rhyme and strophic formation was forced upon many alliterative poems.
It would lead us too far, however, to give a detailed description of the strophic forms occurring there.
In these poems the strophic arrangement is not strictly followed throughout, but only in certain parts; a general conformity only is observed in these cases.
Among the strophic forms used by the Italian poets, two especially have had an important share in the development of English metre: the sonnet and the canzone.
The strophic character of many sonnets is still more visible both in Wordsworth and some earlier poets (as e.
In other poems Skelton uses short lines of two beats, but rhyming in a varied order under the influence, it would seem, of the strophic system of the virelay, which rhymes in the order a a a b b b b c c c c d.
Non-strophic anisometrical combinations of rhymed verse consist of lines of different metres, rhyming in pairs, and recurring in a definite order of succession.
Pindar's odes were by no means formed on the model of such an arbitrary strophic structure as that of the so-called Pindaric Odes which had hitherto been popular in English poetry.
They are to be regarded as the primary forms of all strophic poetry.
The =ten-line stanzas= are also based mostly on a combination of earlierstrophic systems.
In strophic compositions, unrhymed antepenults may terminate certain lines occurring at regular intervals in the poem.
It is really the first hemistich of a sapphic, and in strophic arrangement the two are always associated; cf.
METRE In general the metre of a Spanish poetical composition is regulated by its pauses, accents, rhyme and, in most cases, its strophic arrangement.
The *letrilla* is a strophic composition of short verses and varied structure.
See also on the strophic formation of the First Riddle of Cynewulf, an article by W.
He also speaks of "an unmistakably strophic construction in the text as we have it.
Let us pass now to the consideration of the strophic form of the "Nibelungenlied".
Only as it attained its perfected strophic forms, it necessarily made use of trochaic and other rhythms which long before had changed from quantity to accent and so had passed on into the verse-making habitudes of the Middle Ages.
No strophic rule has yet been established; but it seems not unlikely that when the longer poetical pieces shall have been more definitely fixed in form, certain principles of poetical composition will present themselves.
So also strophicdivisions may be observed, such divisions naturally resulting from the nature of all narratives.
The remaining homiletic verse of this period is too abundant to be referred to in detail; it will be enough to mention the sermons of William of Shoreham, written in strophic form, but showing little either of metrical skill or poetic feeling.
Guisnes in 1352, were celebrated by the Yorkshireman Laurence Minot in alliterative verse with strophic arrangement and rhyme.
These strophic poems were set to music, and sung by alternating choirs of girls.
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