Definition of "antistrophe" []

• The second stanza, and those like it, in a poem consisting of alternating stanzas in contrasting metrical form. (noun)
• The second division of the triad of a Pindaric ode, having the same stanza form as the strophe. (noun)
• The choral movement in classical Greek drama in the oppostite direction from that of the strophe. (noun)
• The part of a choral ode sung while this movement is executed. (noun)

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• "In the unwholesome pool, or ever – stagnant lake. antistrophe 2"
• "Or painful life support beneath such weight of woe? antistrophe 1"
• "In another, two or three burning glasses, wherewith he made both men and women sometimes mad, and in the church put them quite out of countenance; for he said that there was but an antistrophe, or little more difference than of a literal inversion, between a woman folle a la messe and molle a la fesse, that is, foolish at the mass and of a pliant buttock."