Strophes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STROPHES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• STROPHE, (Greek) a group of lines forming a section of a lyric poem
• the first section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it.
• a group of lines forming a section of a lyric poem.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a part of an ancient Greek choral ode

Words related to STROPHES

strophe12

Words that contain STROPHES

anastrophes16 apostrophes18 epistrophes18 antistrophes17 catastrophes19 hypostrophes25 monostrophes19 ecocatastrophes24

How to use STROPHES in a sentence

• Spanish rhythm is a rhythm of series, of strophes, not a rhythm of regularly recurring accents within a verse.
• Thus far all the compositions treated have been strophes, of which all the lines have the same number of syllables.
• He had been debating in his own mind whether he should adopt the Dante rhyme for his ode to the young Madonna, or make it in strophes.
• Examples of this will be found in the second, third, and fifth strophes of the passage given above.
• The native Spanish strophes are usually combinations of 8-syllable or shorter lines.
• The 11-syllable line, itself an importation from Italy, brought with it many well-known Italian strophes.
• She was an Oriental poem, in which shone the sun that Saadi, that Hafiz, have set in their pulsing strophes.
• The great fault is the frequent harshness of the style, principally in the choruses, where some strophes are almost uncouth.
• They sing in Latin, and their three strophes have a melody different from that of the preceding strophes.
• All the strophes change the melody at each change of personages.
• In these cases he has even introduced rhymed strophes, which approach to the form of the sonnet, then usual in England.
• He was quite familiar with the song in which the tears of the rain form the strophes, and he knew that neither dog, nor man, nor fox, nor hawk had any part in it.
• The sentences are composed of short parallel clauses, and the nature of the material induced a division into paragraphs which resemble strophes.

Similar words containing STROPHE without suffix s

strophe12 astrophel14 anastrophe15 apostrophe17 astrophels15 epistrophe17 anastrophes16 antistrophe16 apostrophes18 catastrophe18 epistrophes18 hypostrophe24 monostrophe18 antistrophes17 catastrophes19 hypostrophes25 monostrophes19 boustrophedon21 boustrophedons22 ecocatastrophe23 boustrophedonic25 ecocatastrophes24

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