elegiac couplet
distichon elegiacum latin

A single elegiac couplet survives more or less intact from his body of work.

There is disagreement about whether the term should also be applied to works written in elegiac couplets.

Unlike Classical comedy, they were written in elegiac couplets.

Translated in the original form of an elegiac couplet:

The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet and goes as follows:

Here paraphrased to retain the form of the Elegiac couplet:

These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form of elegiac couplets.

Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets.

The form of this ancient Greek poetry is an elegiac couplet, commonly used for epitaphs.

Roman poets use two dactylic forms, the hexameter and the elegiac couplet.

The last elegiac couplet is translated: "Where's the joy in stabbing your steel into my dead flesh?

This poem in 38 elegiac couplets describes the song of the barmaid Syrisca.

Elegiac couplets and anacreontics occur as well.

Military and didactic themes may be treated in elegiac couplets, drawing on poetic conventions from epic.

Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries, Callinus was considered the inventor of the elegiac couplet by some ancient critics.

The vestibule leading to them emphasizes their complementarity with this inscribed elegiac couplet:

Catullus wrote in many different meters including hendecasyllabic and elegiac couplets (common in love poetry).

In four books of elegiac couplets it explained the legendary origin of obscure customs, festivals, and names.

The 644-line poem, like all Ovid's extant work except the Metamorphoses, is written in elegiac couplets.

All his poems are written using the elegiac couplet, a form in vogue among the Roman social set during the late 1st century BC.

An elegy is a poem of mourning, or historically a form of poetic meter (see elegiac couplet).

He composed a Latin poem in elegiac couplets whose subject is the life of Mahomet (Muhammad).

His epitaph (in Latin elegiac couplets) is:

The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus' addresses to Lesbia.

Literary histories usually treat elegies, a category which includes any poetry written in elegiac couplets, as part of the lyric tradition.