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distich

noun as in couplet

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A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.

Leo used occasionally to send him some dishes from his table; and he was expected to pay for each dish with a Latin distich.

That distich which Shakespeare puts in the mouth of his madman in K. Lear, act iii.

So ran an agonised distich I found written up on a rock somewhere.

The chief forms of verse used are the elegiac distich (most frequent), scazons, and hendecasyllabics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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