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noun - the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama
The second stanza, and those like it, in a poem consisting of alternating stanzas in contrasting metric form.
The second division of the triad of a Pindaric ode, having the same stanza form as the strophe.
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| This poet ran into difficulties composing part of ode |
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| Mar 25 2009 The Times - Cryptic |
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| the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem |
| The second section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it. |
| The second stanza, and those like it, in a poem consisting of alternating stanzas in contrasting metrical form. |
| The second division of the triad of a Pindaric ode, having the same stanza form as the strophe. |
| The choral movement in classical Greek drama in the oppostite direction from that of the strophe. |
| The part of a choral ode sung while this movement is executed. |
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| Antistrophe (Ancient Greek: , "a turning back") is the portion of an ode sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west.It has the nature of a reply and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, in Gray's ode called "The Progress of Poesy" (excerpt below), the strophe, which dwelt in triumphant accents on the beauty, power and ecstasy verse, is answered by the antistrophe, in a depressed and melancholy key:* When the sections of the chorus have ended their responses, they unite and close in the epode, thus exemplifying the triple m, in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As Milton says: "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the music then used with the chorus that sang".Antistrophe was also a kind of ancient dance, wherein dancers stepped sometimes to the right, and sometimes to the left, still doubling their turns or conversio |