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Distich

//ˈdɪstɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Distichous. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.

    "Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’."

  2. 2
    two items of the same kind wordnet
  3. 3
    Any couplet.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).

Etymology 2

From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).

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