distich

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Percy discovered in the old metrical romance of “Sir Bevis of Southampton,” the very distich which Edgar had parodied.—Warton, iii.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

These dates are given in the following memorial distich with a frank indifference to quantity and metre— “Vult Crux, Lucia, Cinis, Charismata dia Quod det vota pia quarta sequens feria.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

I myself could have responded to the royal suspiria with one distich.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

Now, this principle of pure rhythm at the end of each strain, is peculiarly impressed upon the hexameter-pentameter distich.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

And boys of older growth may yet recall the simple distich: "It's Evacuation Day, when the British ran away, Please, dear Master, give us holiday!"

From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by Riker, James