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- Elegiac_couplet abstract "The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English heroic, each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.Each couplet consist of a hexameter verse followed by a pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion. Note that - is a long syllable, u a short syllable, and U is either one long syllable or two short syllables:- U | - U | - U | - U | - u u | - -- U | - U | - || - u u | - u u | -The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second. The sentiment is summarized in a line from Ovid's Amores I.1.27 Sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat - \"Let my work rise in six steps, fall back in five.\" The effect is illustrated by Coleridge as:In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column,In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.translating Schiller,Im Hexameter steigt des Springquells silberne Säule,Im Pentameter drauf fällt sie melodisch herab.↑".
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- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Elegiac couplet".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Elegies".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Versus elegiaci".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "couplets".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiac couplet".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiac couplets".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiac metre".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiac poetry".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiac verse".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiac".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegiacs".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegies".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageWikiLinkText "elegy".
- Elegiac_couplet wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Elegiac_couplet subject Category:Poetic_form.
- Elegiac_couplet hypernym Form.
- Elegiac_couplet type Term.
- Elegiac_couplet comment "The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English heroic, each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.Each couplet consist of a hexameter verse followed by a pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion.".
- Elegiac_couplet label "Elegiac couplet".
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Q2082412.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Элегічны_двуверш.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Dístic_elegíac.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Elegické_distichon.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Elegisk_distikon.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Elegia_distiko.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Dístico_elegiaco.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Distique_élégiaque.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Dístico_elexíaco.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Distico_elegiaco.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Елегичен_дистих.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Elegisch_distichon.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Dystych_elegijny.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs Dístico_elegíaco.
- Elegiac_couplet sameAs m.02njl.