Meaning & use
Strophic
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Relating to a musical or poetic form in which the same melody or pattern is repeated for each stanza.
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The hymn follows a simple strophic structure, with the same tune sung for every verse.
Folk ballads are typically strophic, unlike the through-composed art songs of later composers.
A note on using this word
Strophic comes from 'strophe,' the term for a stanza in Greek choral poetry, and is a key concept in the analysis of song form.
Words with an opposite meaning
through-composed
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