Elegiac

Elegiac

A dactylic hexameter couplet, with the second line having only an unaccented syllable in the third and sixth feet; also, of or relating to the period in Greece when elegies written in such couplets flourished, about the seventh century B.C.; also, relating to an elegy.

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elegiac

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Elegiac verse.

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Elegiac.

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The distinctive verse form of old germanic poetry, including old english.

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A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

anapaest

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A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

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The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.

alcaics

Literature; Poetry

A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.

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