| 单词 | elegiac couplet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselegiac couplet elegiac couplet n. Prosody a couplet consisting of a hexameter followed by a pentameter; the verse form consisting of such couplets; cf. sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > couplet > elegiac couplet elegiac distich1665 elegiac couplet1790 elegy1794 1790 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 2 ii. ii. iii. 106 The elegiac couplet is of the same kind. 1835 W. M. Leake Trav. in N. Greece II. xix. 511 One of these [inscriptions] is a fragment, preserving only the ending of two elegiac couplets. 1956 Traditio 12 104 Other longer pieces in dactylic hexameters or in elegiac couplet. 1990 Apollo July 4/1 The verse, a clumsy attempt at an elegiac couplet, defies easy scansion. < as lemmas |
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