Distich

Definitions

1. A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
2. Any couplet.

Equivalents

Examples

“Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive⟳ the same service on a ‘bad condition’.”

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