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Antistrophe

Structure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The second section of a classical choral ode, mirroring the strophe in meter

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Ode — An ode is not one rigid pattern but a flexible lyric genre in which a speaker gives sustained, heightened attention to a person, object, place, idea or experience. It can praise, question, remember, mourn and think aloud.

Detailed Definition
Antistrophe is the second section of a classical choral ode, mirroring the strophe in meter but often reversing its thematic or emotional direction; in broader poetic usage, it denotes any responsive or counter-turning movement within a poem’s structure.
Example
Example in poetry:
Antistrophe: In Greek choral odes, the second strophe that mirrors the first in meter but may shift perspective; in Pindar’s Olympian 1, after the strophe praising Hieron, the antistrophe turns to the myth of Pelops.
Additional Notes
Section of choral ode that reverses or responds to strophe's movement. Same metrical pattern as strophe but different content. Followed by epode. Part of Pindaric ode structure. Creates balanced triadic form.
Also Known As
counter-turn responding stanza
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