Lute songs were generally in strophic form or verse repeating with a homophonic texture. The strophic texts of hymns use the same syllabic melody for each stanza. Bach knew Schelle's music, which was a five-part homophonic strophic setting. The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. A lilting, melody in strophic form. Unlike many strophic forms of the time, most madrigals were through-composed. His earlier choral arrangements of folk songs were primarily strophic arrangements of the melody. This famous example is strophic and plainly sung with scant accompaniment. The song form can analyzed as "ABAB CBCB", a variation of the strophic form. The opposite of strophic form, with new music written for every stanza, is called through-composed. The form is strophic, two verses with a chorus. Archaic lyric was characterized by strophic composition and live musical performance. They consist of eleven diverse strophic pieces, and were consequently meant to be sung. The song's composition employed a strophic form with a chorus. The second movement is a theme in muted strings followed by four strophic variations.