elegiac couplet

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noun

1. classical prosody a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter

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elegiac couplet

I have a mind to try how it would bear translation; but what metre have we to answer in feeling to the elegiac couplet of the Greeks?

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Distich, couplet; usually in classical prosody the elegiac couplet of a hexameter and a pentameter, 162.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

Apart from his single tragedy, from a few didactic or mock-didactic pieces, imitated from Alexandrian originals, and from his great poem of the Metamorphoses, the whole of Ovid's work was executed in the elegiac couplet.

From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

He also brought in the elegiac couplet, which was to attain perfection at the hands of Propertius and Ovid.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Tate's little treatise on the elegiac couplet correctly analyses the formal side of Ovid's versification.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas