distich
Example Sentences
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For now 'twas the parting-time; But she no other answer would give, Than this distich of mystical rhyme,— Kind Sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the Broken-Ladle I dwell.
From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various
When both itch, the above distich expresses the popular belief.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
It gave rise to a taunting distich similar to the one at Arlesey.
From Literary Byways by William Andrews
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
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
