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A strophe (/ ˈ s t r oʊ f iː /) 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.
Pindaric odes, also called Greek odes, follow the form and style of the Ancient Greek poet Pindar. These employ a tripartite structure, consisting of the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. In Ancient Greece, odes would have been performed on a stage to musical accompaniment.
According to one meaning of the word, an epode [1] is the third part of an ancient Greek choral ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe and completes the movement. [ 2 ] The word epode is also used to refer to the second (shorter) line of a two-line stanza of the kind composed by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line ...
Antistrophe (Ancient Greek: ἀντιστροφή, "a turning back" [1]) 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. [2]
Horace composed some poems in the Alcmanian strophe [2] or Alcmanian system.It is also called the Alcmanic strophe [3] or the 1st Archilochian. [4] It is a couplet consisting of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter a posteriore (so called because it ends with a spondee, thus resembling the last four feet of the hexameter).
Stasimon (Ancient Greek: στάσιμον) in Greek tragedy is a stationary song, composed of strophes and antistrophes and performed by the chorus in the orchestra (Ancient Greek: ὀρχήστρα, "place where the chorus dances"). [1]
Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek. Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre. Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre.
The word "ode" itself is of Greek origin, meaning "sung". While ode-writers from antiquity adhered to rigid patterns of strophe , antistrophe , and epode , the form by Keats's time had undergone enough transformation that it represented a manner rather than a set method for writing a certain type of lyric poetry.