| 单词 | elegiac quatrain |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselegiac quatrain elegiac quatrain n. Prosody a quatrain consisting of iambic pentameters rhyming abab; the verse form consisting of such quatrains. ΚΠ 1794 Monthly Rev. Oct. 215 This tale, the incidents of which are common in many old ballads, is written with polished prolixity, in elegiac quatrains. 1871 Sat. Rev. 29 Apr. 543/2 He departs from the heroic couplet, in which he has clothed almost every other elegy, and resorts to what we may call English elegiac quatrains, with good effect. 1967 W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley Eng. Della Cruscans & their Time 51 The famous elegiac quatrain becomes the vehicle for Merry's black moods of introspection. 2006 Hermathena No. 181 244 Moero wrote epic, elegy, and lyric poetry, according to the Suda, but only a 10-line fragment in hexameter verse and two elegiac quatrains survive. < as lemmas |
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