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Definition of distich in English: distichnoun ˈdɪstɪkˈdɪstɪk Prosody A pair of verse lines; a couplet. Example sentencesExamples - He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller.
- The resulting text is more a series of distichs than a connected poem.
- To these we may add the nine notebook lines ‘Ad Vilmum Axiologum’ written somewhat later in 1805, and the distich on ‘The Homeric Hexameter,’.
- He also wrote numerous poems in elegiac distichs.
- Moral advice and edifying sentiments are found in this series of distichs.
Synonyms stanza, strophe, stave, canto
Origin Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek distikhon (metron) '(measure) of two lines', neuter of distikhos, from di- 'twice' + stikhos 'line'. Rhymes aoristic, artistic, autistic, cystic, deistic, egoistic, fistic, holistic, juristic, logistic, monistic, mystic, puristic, sadistic, Taoistic, theistic, truistic, veristic Definition of distich in US English: distichnounˈdistikˈdɪstɪk Prosody A pair of verse lines; a couplet. Example sentencesExamples - To these we may add the nine notebook lines ‘Ad Vilmum Axiologum’ written somewhat later in 1805, and the distich on ‘The Homeric Hexameter,’.
- He also wrote numerous poems in elegiac distichs.
- Moral advice and edifying sentiments are found in this series of distichs.
- The resulting text is more a series of distichs than a connected poem.
- He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller.
Synonyms stanza, strophe, stave, canto
Origin Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek distikhon (metron) ‘(measure) of two lines’, neuter of distikhos, from di- ‘twice’ + stikhos ‘line’. |