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elegiac couplet
el·e·gi·ac cou·plet (plural el·e·gi·ac cou·plets)


noun 
Definition:
 
2-line unit of classical poetry: a two-line unit of classical Greek and Latin poetry in which the first line contains six dactylic feet and the second line five
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