Antistrophe, the portion of an ode which is sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response the strophe, which was sung from east to west. Ode is a form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse. ... Strophe (Greek, to turn) is a term in versification which properly means a turn, as from one foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. ...

It is of the nature of a reply, and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, Gray's ode called "The Progress of Poesy," the strophe, which dwelt in triumphant accents on the beauty, power and ecstasy verse, is answered by the antistrophe, in a depressed and melancholy key: For the recipient of the Victoria Cross, see Thomas Gray (VC) Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University. ...

"Man's feeble race what ills await,

Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,

Disease and Sorrow's weeping Train,

And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate," etc.

When the sections of the chorus have ended their responses, they unite and close in the epode, thus exemplifying the triple m in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As Milton says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the music then used with the chorus that sang." Categories: Possible copyright violations ... John Milton John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, most famous for his blank verse epic Paradise Lost. ... Epode, in verse, the third part in an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement. ... In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ...

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