a. Prosody. [f. STROPH-E + -IC. Cf. ANTISTROPHIC.] a. Pertaining to strophes; consisting of strophes. b. Belonging to the strophe as distinguished from the antistrophe.
1848. Class. Museum, V. 386. As regards Pindar, the fragments of the first dithyramb,… give evidence of strophic composition.
1861. Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Supplices, 62, note. Either the strophic or the antistrophic verse must be altered.
1866. Lytton, Lost Tales Miletus, Pref. x. The strophic metres of the ancients.
1896. R. G. Moulton, Lit. Study Bible, i. 62. The reader must be on the watch to distinguish the ‘strophic structure,’ where the stanzas may be unequal, from the ‘antistrophic structure,’ in which the two stanzas of a pair are exact counterparts.
1906. Expositor, June, 565. [He] illustrates the ordinary parallelisms and strophic phenomena.
