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Strophe In choral poetry, it is common to find the strophe followed by a metrically identical antistrophe, which may – in Pindar and other epinician poets – be followed in turn by a metrically dissimilar epode, creating an "AAB" form.
Strophe In its original Greek setting, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music," as John Milton wrote in the preface to "Samson Agonistes", with the strophe chanted by a Greek chorus as it moved from right to left across the scene.
Strophe A simple form of Greek strophe is the Sapphic strophe. Like all Greek verse, it is composed of alternating long and short syllables (symbolized by — for long, u for short and x for either long or short) in this case arranged in the following manner:
Strophe With the development of Greek prosody, various peculiar strophe-forms came into general acceptance, and were made celebrated by the frequency with which leading poets employed them. Among these were the "Sapphic," the "Elegiac," the "Alcaic," and the "Asclepiadean" strophe, all of them prominent in Greek and Latin verse. The briefest and the most ancient strophe is the "dactylic distych," which consists of two verses of the same class of rhythm, the second producing a melodic counterpart to the first.
Strophe A strophe () is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length. Strophic poetry is to be contrasted with poems composed line-by-line non-stanzaically, such as Greek epic poems or English blank verse, to which the term "stichic" applies.