noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot
a type of verse [n ELEGIACS]
used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy
expressing sorrow or lamentation
elegiac or distich verse
poem in such distichs or verses
of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic hexameter lines the second of which lacks the arsis in the third and sixth feet.