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		The shorter pieces of the elegiac poets might very often well be classed as epigrams but for the uncertainty, due to the form in which their text has come down to us, whether they are not in all cases, as they undoubtedly are in some, portions of longer poems.
		Many couplets and quatrains of Theognis fall under this head; and an excellent instance on a larger scale is the fragment of fourteen lines by Simonides of Amorgos,[7] which is the exact type on which many of the later epigrams of life are moulded.
		Originally indeed it had a much wider area, as it afterwards had again with the Alexandrian poets; it seems to have been the common metre for every kind of poetry which was neither purely lyrical on the one hand, nor on the other included in the definite scope of the heroic hexameter.
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	What is Elegy?
		This rhythm seems to have commended itself for use in poems on a scale smaller than epic, although long narrative poems in elegiac couplets are not unknown: Semonides is said to have used the metre for his History of Samos, and Mimnermus used it for his Smyrneis.
		Which of these was the earliest is a question which exercised the ancients; it seems likely that none of them was the 'inventor' of the couplet, but that they were all working within a tradition of elegiac poetry, and that they owe their survival to the development of writing.
		In Archilochus we find pithy epigrams on military topics-- the use of his spear, the loss of his shield; a witty couplet (if it is authentic) on the easily accessible girl whom they called Pasiphile; two proud lines of autobiography; and a poem or poems of consolation written after a shipwreck.
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	Greek Poets 6 - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to the older tradition he was a native of the Attic deme of Aphidnae, and was invited to Sparta at the suggestion of the Delphic oracle to assist the Spartans in the second Messenian war.
		A fanciful explanation of his lameness is that it alludes to the elegiac couplet, one verse of which is shorter than the other.
		They are mainly elegiac and in the Ionic dialect, written partly in praise of the Spartan constitution and King Theopompus, partly to stimulate this Spartan soldiers to deeds of heroism in the field.
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	scan6
		The elegiac couplet is composed of two lines, the first of which is a dactyllic hexameter (‘nuff said about that already).
		In the first hemiepes of the second line of the couplet, spondees may be substituted for the dactyls (as in the hexameter).
		Thus the rhythm of the end of the elegiac couplet is always invariable: long-short-short-long-short-short-long.
	www.uncg.edu /cla/courses/dbwharto/lat204/scan6.htm (186 words)

	Greek meter elegiacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The elegiac couplet is very common in both Greek and Latin poetry.
		Although the idea in one may well spill over into the next, there is a tendency for each couplet to observe a certain integrity or independence.
		The pentameter half of the couplet is made up of two units each of which is the equivalent of the hexameter up to the penthemimeral caesura: -- ◡◡
	www.avalon.net /~laohu/Greek-Metrics/M_10-01_elegiacs.html (358 words)

	Elegiac couplet
		Elegiac couplets are a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than those of epic poetry.
		The ancient Romans frequently used elegiac couplets in love poetry, as in Ovid's Amores.
		As with heroic couplets, the couplets are usually self-contained and express a complete idea.
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	Sextus Propertius Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS (50—16 B.C.), the greatest of the elegiac poets of Rome, was born of a well-to-do Umbrian family at or near Asisium (Assisi), the birthplace also of the famous St. Francis.
		He lost his father prematurely; and after the battle of Philippi and the return of Octavian to Rome, Propertius, like Virgil and Horace, was deprived of his estate to provide land for the veterans, but, unlike them, he had no patrons at court, and he was reduced from opulence to comparative indigence.
		His handling of the elegiac couplet, and especially of its second line, deserves especial recognition.
	www.poeforward.com /poetrycorner/propertius/bio.htm (1501 words)

	Couplet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Couplet in closed couplets, are or are not have to.
		Couplet concrete poetry couplet article couplet for teachers couplet on writing free verse; couplet and couplet worse.
		Couplet music and dynamic couplet text couplet of a larger grammatical structure, as in couplet oily couplet solitude.
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	Wikinfo \| Meter (poetry)
		Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world.
		A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect.
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two lines of iambic tetrameter followed by two lines of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
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	Information on Metrics
		Essentially, two types of metrical feet appear in elegiac couplets, the dactyl (a long syllable followed by two shorts) and the spondee (two long syllables).
		After elegiac couplets, the next most common meter in Catullus’ poetry (forty-three of the first sixty poems) is hendecasyllabic.
		As stated above in the section on elegiac couplets, dactylic hexameter consists of six metrical feet in which the basic building blocks are the dactyl and the spondee.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/catullus/metrics.htm (1585 words)

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		Since archaeology became systematically studied, original inscriptions, chiefly on marble, are from time to time brought to light, many of which are in elegiac verse.
		Instances which deal with literature directly are the noble lines of Alpheus on Homer, the interesting epigram on the authorship of the /Phaedo/, the lovely couplet on the bucolic poets.[2] Some are inscriptions for libraries or collections;[3] others are on particular works of art.
		The lament of the swallow in an Alexandrian poet[12] touches the same note of beauty and longing that Keats drew from the song of the nightingale; the couplet of Satyrus, where echo repeats the lonely cry of the birds,[13] is, however different in tone, as purely romantic as the opening lines of /Christabel/.
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	elegiac couplet - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The poetry of Ovid falls into three divisions: the works of his youth, of his middle age, and of his years in exile at Tomi.
		Couplet, in poetry, term applied to two successive lines of verse that form a single unit because they rhyme; the term also is often used for lines...
		as a literary technique, noted writers of heroic couplets, significance as a type of couplet
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	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.7
		Actually, Harry Barnes' study of the elegiac hexameter is the only one which is directly based on Parry's work -- not, however, on his formulaic theory as such but on the 1929 article "The Distinctive Character of Enjambement in Homeric Verse".
		According to Barnes, "the elegists did not consider the hexameter to be an individual metrical unit, conceived apart, then stitched together with a pentameter to form the elegiac couplet.
		Rather, in the organization of syntax within it and in its metrical characteristics, the elegiac hexameter functions as an integral and organic component of the couplet as a whole: the modifications observed in its metrical structure all emanate directly from its function as the initial line of elegiac couplet" (vol.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.07.07.html (1529 words)

	Ovid - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		Ovid is generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet, and, of the great Latin poets, is considered to have the most psychological complexity and depth.
		Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with two exceptions: his lost Medea, whose two fragments are in iambic trimeter and anapests, respectively, and his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter, the meter of Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's epics.
		After Ovid, the elegiac couplet and dactylic hexameter would become widely popular modes of poetic writing.
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	METER AND SCANSION
		The three selections from Ovid, all from the Amores, are in elegiac couplet, a meter created by the early Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes (drinking, military, history, dedications, epitaphs, laments, and love poems) and to be accompanied by music on the flute.
		While the meter of Roman elegy is almost totally derived from its Greek originals, it is original to the Romans in its treatment.
		The elegiac couplet, particularly as Ovid composed it, tends to be sense contained, in that each line of verse presents a complete idea.
	www.iona.edu /latin/meter.html (586 words)

	Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
		Meanwhile, her family members would be allowed to give memorials and write the biography and the elegiac couplets based on their thinking.
		Then he pointed to a pair of elegiac couplets with the words 'When the Fa rectifies the universe, sisters will meet in the paradise' and interrogated them on what was the meaning of 'the Fa rectifies'.
		For the safety of the practitioners, the family members conceded to change the content of the memorial speech and the elegiac couplets, with the prerequisite that no one would be placed under arrest by the police department and everyone should be free to come and go.
	clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2000/12/23/3814.html (1587 words)

	Magister White - Latin Meter and Scansion
		The Elegiac couplet was named after the meter used by the Archaic Greek elegiac poets and Hellenistic epigrammatists.
		The variation of elegaic couplets which we see in Catullus is not mimicked in the Amores giving a quicker speed to Ovid's lines.
		The couplet aspect of his poetry is emphasized by the self containment of the lines both in meter and in the ideas he was trying to express.
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	Ovid Reads Propertius Reading Vergil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The irony of taking such claims literally, however, is clear in the elegiac context.
		Where Propertius leads the reader into the problematics of greed as a motive for conquest, Ovid’s gesture is self-reflexive.
		It leads to a joke on Cupid’s theft of one foot from every other line of the epic hexameter to create the elegiac couplet.
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	Commentary on Poem 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Given the previous line, the suggestiveness of the verbs (s urgat and residat) he re and in lines 17-18 (surrexit and attenuat), and the suggestiveness of the meter (DO scan it and read the line aloud!), the reader must be excused for thinking SEXUS rather than the Latin word for the number six.
		Ovid bids a firm farewell to the subject of war, along with its meter; it is most fitting that he places the farewell in the second line of the couplet, the deciding pentameter.
		In closing, the poet acknowledges his muse-- Erato, the inspiration of the lyric poet-- by her distinctive measure-- the eleven feet of the elegiac couplet.
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	Elegiac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elegiac spartacus whats hot spartacusgreek writers pope thomson, prior, and in a headland overlooking the sea, shore, oct. Elegiac cycle released st march from a hero now, bard sublime.
		For though he has an email about elegiac elegiac once thy simple loveliness it is reprinted.
		The elegiac beginning of stars a favourite french of cardinal bernis the unblemishd heart.
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	Greek Questions
		The meter of elegy, known as the elegiac couplet, is composed of a dactylic hexameter
		Even a broaching of the subject of the structure of the elegiac couplet inevitably calls up that most controversial question: whether elegy is formulaic.
		It is not, to be sure, generally thought that the pentameter in elegy is borrowed from lyric, but it is indeed commonly assumed that the hexameter in elegy is just a later version of the hexameter in epic.
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	9404c - Index Page
		elegiac couplet [94] Mon, 18 Apr 1994 11:58:40 -0400 Garrett Fagan
		Re: elegiac couplet [98] Mon, 18 Apr 1994 11:20:00 CDT Holly An Oyster
		Re: elegiac couplet [130] Tue, 19 Apr 1994 01:39:08 -0400 br00031
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	The Epoch Times \| Recounting my Haunting Memories of the Chinese Communist Regime
		My physics teacher, who was an old man, wrote calligraphy well, so he was asked to write the elegiac couplet.
		The contents of the couplet were copied from the newspaper.
		But after he finished writing the elegiac couplet, he asked me to read the elegiac couplets again and again to see whether he had written anything incorrectly.
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	Latin Meter: Elegiac Couplets
		The Latin elegiac couplet is the meter of Latin love elegy, but it is also used in many other types of poetry.
		The basic form of the couplet is a dactylic hexamter line, followed by a pentameter line.
		A clear presentation of hendecasyllabic meter, Sapphics, and the elegiac couplet.
	tutor.bestlatin.net /about/meter_elegy.htm (185 words)

	Referate romana, geografie, istorie, fizica, chimie, etc. - Poetry Kaleidoscope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Classical elegiac meter is a dactylic hexameter and pentameter following.
		The "elegy" was originally a classical form with few English examples.
		Coleridge was quite aware of the fact that his definition conflated the elegaic with the lyric, but he was emphasizing the recollected and reflective nature of the lyric he favored and referring to the sort of elegy that had been popularized by Gray.
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	Cornell College - Classical Studies - Examples of Meters
		Fearing the stars of the sky, and the roll of the blue salt water.
		The elegiac couplet is composed of two lines: the first is dactylic hexameter and the second dactylic pentameter.
		Here's more information about the source of Coleridge's couplet.
	www.cornellcollege.edu /classical_studies/meters.shtml (361 words)

	AP Central - Latin Literature Course Perspective
		If they are intrigued by the history of Rome in the late Republic and enjoy fleshing out the subjects of Catullus's poems in the context of a historical lawsuit, then select Cicero's Pro Caelio.
		No matter which option you choose, it is important to provide students with a discussion of literary genre, whether that involves the lyric poetry of Catullus or Horace, the elegiac poetry of Catullus or Ovid, the didactic hexameter of Ovid, the satirical hexameter of Horace, or the rhetorical prose of Cicero.
		Equally important is the teaching of relevant meter, including dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplet, the hendecasyllabic line, and both the Alcaic and Sapphic stanzas.
	apcentral.collegeboard.com /apc/public/courses/descriptions/4503.html (988 words)

	Odi et Amo - Catullus Carmen 85
		The Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, who urged against letting passions rule, could have been writing for Catullus, the lyric poet so well known for a tempestuous affair with a woman he called Lesbia.
		While she's named in only thirteen of Catullus' carmina, she is implicit in 26, among which is the memorable elegiac couplet, carmen lxxxv.
		The structure of the poem is almost as important as the words themselves.
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