Strophe

I was curious when I heard the word 'strophe' used in a book I've been listening to recently (A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg) as I'd never thought of it as a stand alone word before, only as a suffix, as in apostrophe and catastrophe.

I'd never considered the meaning of the word

on its own so I looked it up 

- the word strophe

 refers to

 a stanza

 or 'a turning',

 "a group of verses that form

 a distinct unit within a poem," (Britannica) or music.

And there is another word

 made up of -strophe,

 antistrophe,

 which is to turn back.