Note 617 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
J. Darmesteter, Chants Pop. des Afghans, Paris, 1888-1890, p. cxcvi, calls the strophe “abstraction faite du refrain,”—a more excellent way than these theorists take with their “little poem stuck in the cracks of a big poem,” and such clever nonsense.