95 examples of strophe in sentences

Footnote 17: First strophe of Brooke's version, History of Early English Literature Footnote 18: Seafarer, Part I, Iddings' version, in Translations from Old English Poetry.

Tercetos are a series of strophes, in the first of which the first verse rhymes with the third, and, from the second strophe on, the first and third verse of each successive strophe rhyme with the middle verse of the preceding strophe.

As to Loeben's lyrics, they are irregular, inconsistent, and odd as to orthography, melodious and flowing in form, poor in ideas, rich in feeling that frequently sounds forced, representative of nearly all the important Germanic, Romance, and Oriental verse and strophe forms, reminiscent of his reading in many instances, and romantic as a whole, especially in their constant portrayal of longing.

But the name Loreley does occur[40] twice on the same page on which the last strophe of the ballad is published in Urania, and here the ballad is not entitled "Der Lurleifels," but simply "Loreley."

The verse and strophe form, the rhyme scheme, the accent, the melody, except for Heine's superiority, are the same in both.

And as to the pronounced similarity of form, we must remember that Heine was here employing his favorite measure, while Loeben was almost the equal of Ruckert in regard to the number of verse and strophe forms he effectively and easily controlled.

Pissin gives the number of verse and strophe forms on p. 266.

The first strophe of his Ferdusi runs as follows: Hell erglänzt an Persiens Throne

We need only to mention such a strophe as the following from Atta Troll: Klang das nicht wie Jugendträume.

He stopp'd; he gazed; his bosom glow'd, And deeply felt the impression of her charms; 30 He seized the advantage Fate allow'd, And straight compress'd her in his vigorous arms. STROPHE.

At eight in the morning, when we stopped at the first stage, I wrote down the first strophe; and thus I went on composing in the carriage, and writing down at every stage what I had just composed in my head, so that by the evening the whole was on paper.

He recalled suddenly a strophe of the songs of praise that the devotees of his land used to sing before the altars of this saint.

Even Prudentius, great poet as he was, was manifestly influenced in the choice of metre and the composition of the strophe by the Deus Creator omnium.... "St Ambrose did more than any other writer of his time to establish certain latent tendencies as characteristics of the Catholic spirit.

"I was saying just now that the hymns of Prudentius, by the dramatic rapidity of the narrative, by the composition of the strophe, and by their wit, remind me very forcibly of our English ballads.

Of the three parts of the ode, the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode, each was to be sung at a particular part of the procession.

The eighty-second strophe of the poem commences thus: "'Of Paynim yonder, saw I more,' Quoth Oliver, 'than e'er before The eye of man hath seen An hundred thousand are a-field, With helm and hauberk, lance and shield, And pikes and pike-heads gleaming bright; Prepare for fight, a fiercer fight Than ever yet hath been.

Superbe, il plane avec un hymne en ses agrès; Et l'on croit voir passer la strophe du progrès.

The first strophe of this inartistic idyl will doubtless be all the reader will care to see.

The text is apparently a dialogue, which was chanted as strophe and antistrophe, the one singer speaking for the King, the other for the bard himself.

translate but one strophe of her song, as badly as thou canst, but carry it into the brilliant saloon, and her sentence of death is annulled in the sweet, absolving charmant!

Sometimes the strophe seems to contain four lines, sometimes more.

From E.B. Browning's Translation of 'Prometheus.' A PRAYER TO ARTEMIS STROPHE IV

STROPHE V From towering hopes mortals he hurleth prone To utter doom; but for their fall No force arrayeth he; for all That gods devise is without effort wrought.

STROPHE VI

STROPHE VII

95 examples of  strophe  in sentences