The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly...

refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of elegiac couplets. An elegiac couplet consists of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed...

Antithetical couplet Biblical poetry Chastushka Closed couplet Coupletist Elegiac couplet Kabirdas Monostich Parallelism Tristich "couplet." Encyclopædia...

the same length throughout the poem (except for the elegiac couplet, in which the whole couplet is repeated throughout the poem). The earliest Greek...

to form the second line of a couplet, in which the first line is dactylic hexameter. Thus it resembles an elegiac couplet except that the first half of...

among many others. Hexameters also form part of elegiac poetry in both languages, the elegiac couplet being a dactylic hexameter line paired with a dactylic...

(61–68b), of which the last five are in elegiac couplets; and forty-eight epigrams (69–116), all in elegiac couplets. Since a scroll usually contained between...

renowned for its drama, force and brevity. The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet. Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris. Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō...

books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was...

nature. Because of its structural potential for rhetorical effects, the elegiac couplet was also used by both Greek and Roman poets for witty, humorous, and...

Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It consists of two halves, each consisting of two dactyls, for which...

The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus' addresses to Lesbia. However, the elegiac couplet was originally...

ending also coincides with an audible pause in the line. The ancient elegiac couplet form of the Greeks and Romans contained a line of dactylic hexameter...

upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered...

Martin Litchfield West, are the following. (Strictly speaking, the elegiac couplet is strophic, not stichic, but West considers its use in extended poems...

Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter...

("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of 10,265 lines in elegiac couplets by John Gower (1330 – October 1408) . The first of the seven books...

Longāī 'to him replied the King of Alba Longa' The other is in an elegiac couplet in the last poem of Catullus (116), perhaps mocking the poetic style...

cognomen Soranus is a toponym indicating that he was from Sora. A single elegiac couplet survives more or less intact from his body of work. The two lines address...

their status as comedy. Unlike Classical comedy, they were written in elegiac couplets. Denying their true comedic nature, Edmond Faral called them Latin...

including a Satyr and a Maenad Graffito from the house (CIL IV.4091): an elegiac couplet in praise of love. The classicist Mary Beard has described Iucundus...

 'The Loves') is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own...

leading to them emphasizes their complementarity with this inscribed elegiac couplet: The Temple of the Muses, which may have been used as the personal...

"laws" (νόμοι) for "words". The form of this ancient Greek poetry is an elegiac couplet, commonly used for epitaphs. Some English renderings are given in the...

Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their laws." Epitaph, a single elegiac couplet by Simonides on the dead of Thermopylae. Translated by Cicero in his...

dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies...

lines to extensive narratives, they are unified by a common metre—the elegiac couplet. With few exceptions, the collection is the earliest extant source...

poem, it presents a large collection of origin myths in four books of elegiac couplets. Although the poem cannot be precisely dated, scholars estimate it...

Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter...

with the exception of Gothic. A phrase of Gothic is quoted in an elegiac couplet from the Latin Anthology, and more substantially parts of the Gospels...