distich
/dis-tik/US // ˈdɪs tɪk //UK // (ˈdɪstɪk) //
困扰,困扰的问题,困扰人的问题,困扰人的
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Prosody.
- : a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
- : a rhyming couplet.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as incouplet
Examples
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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