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antistrophe
noun
- in the ancient Greek theater,
- the return movement, from left to right of the stage, made by the chorus in answering the previous strophe
- the part of the choric song performed during this
- in a Pindaric ode, the stanza, usually in the same or similar form, which follows the strophe
- in poems with contrasting or parallel stanza systems, a stanza of the second system
Related Forms:
- antistrophic adjective
See antistrophe in American Heritage Dictionary 4