strophic.
In poetry, a stanzaic form in which each verse (strophe) follows the same structure, metre, and rhyme scheme. In music the term is used by extension to describe any form founded on a repeated pattern: AAAA, etc. It is most commonly found in songs, especially folksongs and art songs of a folk-like nature, in which each stanza of the poem is set to the same music.... ...
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