The strictly Strophic treatment is used, or, in other words, the repetition of the melody of the first stanza in all the succeeding ones.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
They are written in French Strophic forms in the southern dialect, and sometimes have an intermixture of French and Latin lines.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
It may be noted that a great part of Marke's address is in Strophic form, with four lines of two accents followed by one of three accents.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
George Ainslie Hight