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Examples of distich
distich
In the seven remaining epodes Horace diversified the measures, while retaining the general character of the distich.
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In all such poetry the fundamental formal feature is the repetition of a metrical pattern larger than a verse or distich.
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The Greek poet Archilochus was one of the main exponents of the iambic distich and he provided a model for Horace's Epodes 1-10.
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- Couple: two items of the same kind
- A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. ...
- A couplet, a two line stanza making complete sense; Any couplet
- Two lines related to one another. A major Greek and Latin metre is the elegiac distich, a pair of dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines.
