strophe

In Greek choral and lyric poetry, and imitations of this: A series of lines forming a system, the metrical structure of which is repeated in a following system called the [|antistrophe n.] Also, in wider sense, one of two or more metrically corresponding series of lines forming divisions of a lyric poem. Hence occas. (after French) used with reference to modern poetry as equivalent to [|stanza n.]

// "So that in the next four weeks (Jefferson was a village then: the Holston House, the courthouse, six stores, a blacksmith and livery stable, a saloon frequented by drovers and peddlers, three churches and perhaps thierty residences) the stranger's name went back and forth among the places of business and of idleness and among the residences in steady strophe and antistrophe: //Sutpen. Sutpen. Sutpen. Sutpen // " (AA 24). //

–Megan Mitchell