Crossword clues for strophic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strophic \Stroph"ic\, a. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context prosody English) Using or containing strophes. 2 (context music English) Of a song, composed so that every stanza is set to the same music.
Usage examples of "strophic".
In the villanelle the influence of the strophic folk song is clearly perceptible.
Yet they are, in a way, uncompromisingly formal, architectural, strophic, and conventionally Verdian in their repetition of rhythmical motives and their melodic formularies.
Those who wished to make things easier for themselves and remain outside the domain of art could, he recommended, confine themselves to strophic songs with thorough-bass accompaniment.
None of it can be brought whole into any other language, for either its substance, its lyric mood, its strophic pattern, or its multiple rhymes escapes in the process.
It is difficult in English, with its relatively meager stock of rhymes and its weight of consonants, to render completely the disarming grace of this reproach to fair-weather friends, the suave cadence, the delicate strophic scheme that embodies his appeal to the countess and, through her, to his familiars in hall, in tournament and war.
But I do think that we will be able to recognize them by their strophic structure and I believe that perhaps I can find in these hills examples of all seven of the dominant tune families of Scotland.