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Definition of Distichs

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 Distichs from wikipedia

- Tamil language has a rich and refined grammar for couplet poetry, and distichs in Tamil poetry follow the venpa metre. One of the most notable examples...
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- thousand distichs. But this is a round figure; most of the relatively reliable m****cripts have preserved a little over fifty thousand distichs. Nizami...
- syllable of every distich rhymes throughout the whole poem; a long poem might comprise a hundred distichs. In classical verse, each distich is a complete...
- 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...
- 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...
- **** Distich may refer to: A three volume novel by George Daniel A pseudonym of Alexander Pope This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with...
- Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished...
- Following this precedent, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe named a collection of distichs, which he wrote together with Friedrich Schiller, Die Xenien, in which...
- number of lines included. Thus a collection of two lines is a couplet (or distich), three lines a triplet (or tercet), four lines a quatrain, and so on....