Let us also be thankful that Whitman did not write about the "technique of free verse," about "cadence," "strophe" and "return."
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
When they had gone a little distance, they began staging an improvised strophe the burden of whose veiled insolence took in the white race in general, and the last specimen of it the singers had seen in particular, and thus bawling, they eventually receded from sight.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
This only became really odious when, with a formidable explosion, the first strophe of the Magnificat struck the arches.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans