elegiac couplet

British  

noun

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

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elegiac couplet

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

The elegiac couplet had, of course, been in use at Rome long before; Ennius himself had employed it, and in the Ciceronian age Catullus had written in it largely, and not without success.

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

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 J. W. (John William) Mackail

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 Henry Nelson Coleridge

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

From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum

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