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Elegiac couplet - Definition and Overview |
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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.
Example:
In the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column,
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
See also
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Example Usage of Elegiac |
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colleennika: @bunnyBISOUS poignantly twee choices! Lately I have been in the mood for stately, Elegiac European pop. Check this out: http://bit.ly/498fp |
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SndChaser: !listening to Grieg/Jarvi/Gothenburg Orch - Op. 34 Two Elegiac Melodies: 2. Last Spring: Anda |
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