Strophe (Greek, turn, bend, twist, see also phrase)'s a concept in versification which properly means a turn, as from one foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. A strophe also forms the first part of the ode, followed by the antistrophe and epode. In its original Greek setting, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanzas framed only for the music," as John Milton wrote in the preface to Samson Agonistes, with the strophe chanted by a Greek chorus as it moved fro… (More on Strophe)