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elegiac couplet
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elegiac couplet
n.
A unit of verse in Greek and Roman prosody consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
elegiac couplet
n
(Literature / Poetry) Classical prosody a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
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Along with the elegy, which it resembles to a large extent through meter (all thirteen epistles of book 1 are in elegiac couplets, though the six poems of book 2 are in hexameters), length, and content, the epistle was a very popular genre in the first part of the sixteenth century in both Neo-Latin and French vernacular literature.
Epigrammatum liber unus: Epistolarum libri duo by Fodr, Philip / Renaissance Quarterly
Artists Space, New York NY January 18 * March 24, 2007 Leslie Hewitt's "Replica of a Lost Original" is like a sonnet written in elegiac couplets, endlessly rhyming ephemera suspended in time.
Leslie Hewitt by Salmon, Lori / ArtUS
 
 
 
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