elegiac couplet

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

But the poetical capabilities of the elegiac couplet are of a Elegy.

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