Distich
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 two items of the same kind wordnet
- 3 Any couplet.
- 1 Distichous. not-comparable
Example
More examples"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’."
Etymology
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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