distich
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March winds are proverbial, and the following distich is not uncommon in Yorkshire: March winds and April showers, Bring forth May flowers.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
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 Julia Ward Howe
"The following distich," he added, "should now become your motto: "Inveni portum.
From The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. III (of VI), "The Eternal Quest" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
In the model distich quoted by Coleridge— "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter still falling in melody back;" the pentameter is a better verse than the hexameter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Hence such sayings as the "Tota jacet Babylon" of the distich.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
