1. a group of lines forming a section of a poem Compare : stanza
   Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Greek strophÄ“, literally ‘turning’, from strephein ‘to turn’: the term originally denoted a movement from right to left made by a Greek chorus, or lines of choral song recited during this.

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