Sentences with antistrophes
- They are ritual phrases which the listener soon learns to anticipate until, eventually, the child and the teller are enacting a dialogue, strophe and antistrophe, in which understanding what the sentence means has little place.
- The strophe and the antistrophe had the same number of lines, and the meter was also the same; the epode had a different number of lines and a different meter.
- This was a ‘regular ode’ in that it closely followed Pindar's scheme of all strophes and antistrophes conforming to one stanzaic pattern, and all epodes following another.