Elegiac couplet

Elegiac couplets consist of alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter: two dactyls followed by a long syllable, a caesura, then two more dactyls followed by a long syllable.

Related Topics:
Dactylic hexameter - Pentameter - Dactyls - Long syllable - Caesura

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Example:

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In the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column,

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In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

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