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Definition of Distich

Distich
Distich Dis"tich, n. [L. distichon, Gr. ?, neut. of ? with two rows, of two verses; di- = di`s- twice + ? row, verse, fr. ? to ascend; akin to AS. st[=i]gan to ascend: cf. F. distique. See Stirrup.] (Pros.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
Distich
Distich Dis"tich, Distichous Dis"tich*ous, a. [Gr. ?. See Distich, n.] Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

Meaning of Distich from wikipedia

- In poetry, a couplet (/ˈkʌplət/ CUP-lət) or distich (/ˈdɪstɪk/ DISS-tick) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet...
- The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato) is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown...
- **** Distich may refer to: A three volume novel by George Daniel A pseudonym of Alexander Pope This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with...
- (present-day Turkey) in 1883. The stele includes two poems; an elegiac distich and a song with vocal notation signs above the words. A ****enistic Ionic...
- The elegiac couplet or elegaic distich is a poetic form used by Gr**** lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman...
- Look up couplet, couplets, or distich in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A couplet is a pair of lines in verse. Couplet may also refer to: Couplets (cabaret)...
- al-Ṭawīl (الطويل), is a meter used in classical Arabic poetry. It comprises distichs (bayt) of two 'lines'—in Arabic usually written side by side, with a space...
- Hemisphere. aurora musis amica dawn is a friend to the muses Title of a distich by Iohannes Christenius (1599–1672): "Conveniens studiis non est nox, commoda...
- Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished...
- tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the epode or "iambic distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style...