noun Download 🔗Share A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. Examples : "The choir director signaled the strophe, indicating the sopranos should now echo the altos' melody in a new section of the song. " literature language writing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage. Examples : "During the ancient Greek play, the chorus chanted the first strophe as they danced from stage right to stage left. " literature music culture stage Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based. Examples : "The student noticed that the poem's entire structure was based on a repeating strophe of a short, rhyming couplet followed by a longer, unrhymed tercet. " literature language style writing art structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
