Elegiac couplet
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Elegiac couplet
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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 Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English heroic couplet, each pair of lines usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work. Each couplet consists of a dactylic hexameter verse followed by a dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representati
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Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegiac_couplet
date created:
2001-09-16T18:45:43Z
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2024-09-07T20:03:44Z
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