strophe

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
2. noun The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
3. noun A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

Similar words

antistrophe alcaic choreus prosimetrum antispast epode parodos strophicus thesis verse

Often followed by

of and is in to the

Word family

strophes