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单词 strophe
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Definition of strophe in English:

strophe

noun ˈstrəʊfiˈstroʊfi
  • 1The first section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It puts an end to the cyclic character of the six strophes and opens the door back into quotidian time.
    • Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola.
    • One female sang two short strophes of a typically male song.
    • For example, in Schubert's Heidenröslein three verses, or strophes, are set to the same melody, with no alterations to the voice part or the piano accompaniment.
    • We measured song repertoire size as the number of different song figures in 25 consecutive song strophes.
    • Frequency and strophe length were measured in narrow and wide band modes, respectively.
    • The distance between the two vertical arrows indicates the strophe length.
    Synonyms
    stanza, stave, canto
    1. 1.1 A group of lines forming a section of a lyric poem.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are surreal poems like ‘Battle Report,’ with its opening strophe.
      • He believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas, and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry.
      • Such are the strophes exchanged between America's intellectual divinities.
      • Syllabic verse is generally organized in four-line strophes, whereas the number of lines in a rosc passage is not fixed.
      • Her specific topics are seen as well in the first strophe, along with a judgment of the quality of her voice.
      • It deals with the time factor employed in or between lines or units or strophes of poetry.
      • The poem's initial strophe is careful, slow-moving, tonally sophisticated, and somewhat puzzling.
      • Fourthly, there is a subtle, but powerful alliteration in the fourth line of the second strophe, ‘Amidst an ocean full of flying fishes’.
      • The poem's closing strophe shows how Kaufman had become a master in capturing the lyrical qualities of the music and bringing them to bear in his poetry.
      • In some strophes of the poem I tried to depict the tempest, followed by the calm of the sea.
      • Though the poems were in a European habit, Bialik imbues them with Biblical strophes, as well as prophetic metaphor, syntax, and meter.
      • The order in strophe one appears in stanza two as 6 i, 5 2, 4 3.
      • An ‘aria’ was distinguished from a ‘madrigal’ in having a strophic text, with the same music, or a variation of it, set to each strophe.
      • The most usual skaldic metre is ‘dróttkvaett ’, a strophe which consists of eight six-syllable lines, each ending in a trochee.

Derivatives

  • strophic

  • adjective ˈstrəʊfɪkˈstroʊfɪk
    • The more reflective, sentimental, strophic Cancion is represented to a lesser extent.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Apparently he also has limited patience for Orff's strophic writing, because he cuts verses from some of the numbers.
      • This phrase construction does not interfere with the overall strophic form of the piece.
      • There is an almost ritual use of repetition in the strophic or modified strophic songs.
      • His poems are written in regular stanzas, either strophic or triadic.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Greek strophē, literally 'turning', from strephein 'to turn': the term originally denoted a movement from right to left made by a Greek chorus, or lines of choral song recited during this.

Rhymes

Sophie, trophy
 
 

Definition of strophe in US English:

strophe

nounˈstroʊfiˈstrōfē
  • 1The first section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it.

    Compare with antistrophe and epode (sense 2)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It puts an end to the cyclic character of the six strophes and opens the door back into quotidian time.
    • The distance between the two vertical arrows indicates the strophe length.
    • One female sang two short strophes of a typically male song.
    • For example, in Schubert's Heidenröslein three verses, or strophes, are set to the same melody, with no alterations to the voice part or the piano accompaniment.
    • Frequency and strophe length were measured in narrow and wide band modes, respectively.
    • Most celebrated were the Epodes, songs in simple strophes usually made up of a hexameter or iambic trimeter plus one or two shorter cola.
    • We measured song repertoire size as the number of different song figures in 25 consecutive song strophes.
    Synonyms
    stanza, stave, canto
    1. 1.1 A structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line-length, especially an ode or free verse poem.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas, and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry.
      • The order in strophe one appears in stanza two as 6 i, 5 2, 4 3.
      • Fourthly, there is a subtle, but powerful alliteration in the fourth line of the second strophe, ‘Amidst an ocean full of flying fishes’.
      • The poem's initial strophe is careful, slow-moving, tonally sophisticated, and somewhat puzzling.
      • The poem's closing strophe shows how Kaufman had become a master in capturing the lyrical qualities of the music and bringing them to bear in his poetry.
      • Her specific topics are seen as well in the first strophe, along with a judgment of the quality of her voice.
      • The most usual skaldic metre is ‘dróttkvaett ’, a strophe which consists of eight six-syllable lines, each ending in a trochee.
      • An ‘aria’ was distinguished from a ‘madrigal’ in having a strophic text, with the same music, or a variation of it, set to each strophe.
      • Syllabic verse is generally organized in four-line strophes, whereas the number of lines in a rosc passage is not fixed.
      • In some strophes of the poem I tried to depict the tempest, followed by the calm of the sea.
      • It deals with the time factor employed in or between lines or units or strophes of poetry.
      • Such are the strophes exchanged between America's intellectual divinities.
      • There are surreal poems like ‘Battle Report,’ with its opening strophe.
      • Though the poems were in a European habit, Bialik imbues them with Biblical strophes, as well as prophetic metaphor, syntax, and meter.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Greek strophē, literally ‘turning’, from strephein ‘to turn’: the term originally denoted a movement from right to left made by a Greek chorus, or lines of choral song recited during this.

 
 
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