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monostrophic, a. (and n.) Pros.|mɒnəʊˈstrɒfɪk|
[ad. Gr. µονοστροϕικ-ός, f. µονόστροϕ-ος: see monostrophe and -ic.]
A. adj. Consisting of repetitions of one and the same strophic arrangement.
1671Milton Samson Pref., The measure of Verse us'd in the Chorus is of all sorts, call'd by the Greeks Monostrophic, or rather Apolelymenon, without regard had to Strophe, Antistrophe or Epod. 1788[Cumberland] Observer No. 111. IV. 158 By making his Chorus monostrophic, he has robbed it of that lyric beauty, which [etc.]. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxix. (1862) IV. 119 Until this time [600 b c.] the song had been monostrophic, consisting of nothing more than one uniform stanza, repeated from the beginning to the end of the composition. 1849J. W. Donaldson Theat. Grks. i. ii. (ed. 6) 27 The Dithyramb of Lasus eventually became monostrophic.
B. n. pl. Monostrophic verses.
1784G. I. Huntingford (title) An Apology for the Monostrophics which were published in 1782. With a second collection of Monostrophics. 1785Cowper Let. to Unwin 22 Oct., Wks. 1836 V. 169 Huntingford's Monostrophics. |