Strophe: “We praise the harbor’s open gate.” Antistrophe: “We mourn the harbor’s closing gate.” Epode: “Still the tide enters”; in Greek choral ode, strophe and antistrophe were corresponding movements, and a modern antistrophic tercet can answer an earlier tercet with reversed syntax or theme; “You carried fire into winter; / winter into silence; / silence into me” can be answered later by “I carried you from silence; / silence from winter; / winter from fire”; the mirrored tercet may reverse images—arrival to departure, praise to lament—to create formal balance; the device is especially useful when a poem stages debate, reflection, or a change in perspective