Elegiac couplet
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Elegiac couplets
consist of alternating lines of
dactylic hexameter
and pentameter
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: two dactyl
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s followed by a [long syllable]
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, a caesura
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, then two more dactyls followed by a long syllable.
Example:
see
Meter in poetry
Ovid