Consequently we find an extraordinary development of strophic forms corresponding to the many new "tones" which every Meistersinger regarded it as his duty to invent - tones which bore the most remarkable and often ridiculous names, such as Gestreif tsaf ranblumleinweis, Fettdachsweis, Vielfrassweis, geblilmte Paradiesweis, &c. The verses were adapted to the musical strophes by a merely mechanical counting of syllables, regardless of rhythm or sense. [Please select]
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I look upon its formulae, its strophes as superb, without feeling at all astonished when others do not agree. [Please select]
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Through the violet twilight drifted the winged strophes of the Marseillaise, or the heroic affirmations of the Chant du Depart. [Please select]
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It has an exordium, six strophes, each with its refrain, and an episode. [Please select]
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If the weather is calm and hot, towards mid-day the song of the Cigale is divided into strophes of several seconds' duration, which are separated by brief intervals of silence. [Please select]
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The poem is arranged in strophes, each one telling of some afflicted hero and ending with the same refrain: His sorrow passed away; so will mine. [Please select]
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