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stro·phic

 (strō′fĭk, strŏf′ĭk)
adj.
1. Relating to or consisting of strophes.
2. Music Having the same melody used for each strophe.
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strophic

(ˈstrɒfɪk; ˈstrəʊ-) or less commonly

strophical

adj
1. (Poetry) of, relating to, or employing a strophe or strophes
2. (Music, other) (of a song) having identical or related music in each verse. Compare through-composed
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stroph•ic

(ˈstrɒf ɪk, ˈstroʊ fɪk)

adj.
1. Also, stroph′i•cal. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
2. (of a song) having the same music for each successive stanza.
[1840–50]
stroph′i•cal•ly, adv.
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The main section of the anthology reviewed here is given over to the texts and melodies of Luther's strophic hymns that appear in an approximate chronological sequence, beginning with the hymns that first appeared during the winter of 1523-24.
Posters of main cities of Lebanon in the airport remind you of many references of zajal, a traditional form of oral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophic_form%22%20%5Co%20%22Strophic%20form) strophic poetry declaimed in a colloquial dialect, which we used to sit around and watch as a family during the 1990s: during the renaissance of Lebanon.
At his deathbed was Friedrich Schlegel (17721829), who had already published Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night), a unique combination of rhythmic prose and strophic verse that helped establish Hardenberg's reputation as a poet.
And the strophic forms of the Beatles songs compare easily within the forms of Franz Schubert's lieder.
The strophic romance for voice and piano grew in popularity, and provided the basis for the developing melodie.
Originally influenced by Bill Evans' lyric-dynamic style of playing, he also shows affinity with Keith Jarrett's narrative inventiveness and the subtle strophic expression of Brad Mehldau.
for the Miss St strophic bloo Stuart died of catastrophic blood loss at a hospital in Stoke the day after the attack, surrounded by her family.
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In the first part, he presents the transliteration accompanied by an English prose translation of all the known, surviving strophic poems, be they in complete or fragmentary form, from the manuscript of his Diwan or from other sources.
Written over a period stretching from the 1750s until 1785, his The Garden of Divine Songs is a unique collection of 30 poems, featuring a complex system of strophic structures and with only a few of the songs written in a traditional way.
Various efforts were made to explain its attraction, to find a special means of expressiveness and significance in the 14-line strophic convention: either a thesis/antithesis logic, or an enigma of the golden section embedded in the quatrain-terzet structure.