elegiac couplet
noun
classical prosody a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
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How to use elegiac couplet in a sentence
He also brought in the elegiac couplet, which was to attain perfection at the hands of Propertius and Ovid.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousBut the poetical capabilities of the elegiac couplet are of a Elegy.
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