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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. 1

    Prosody.

    • : a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
    • : a rhyming couplet.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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.