Elegiac couplet

Elegiac couplets consist of alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter: two dactyls followed by a long syllable, a caesura, then two more dactyls followed by a long syllable.

Example:

In the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column,
 In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
 

See also

• Meter (poetry)
• Ovid

See also: Elegiac couplet, Caesura, Dactyl (poetry), Dactylic hexameter, Long syllable, Meter (poetry), Ovid, Pentameter