Definition of Elegiac stanza

1. Noun. A quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme.

Generic synonyms: Quatrain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegiac Stanza

eleet
elegance
elegances
elegancies
elegancy
elegant
elegant Habenaria
elegant brodiaea
elegant cat's ears
elegant crested tinamou
elegant crested tinamous
elegant variation
elegantin
elegantly
elegiac
elegiac stanza (current term)
elegiacal
elegiacally
elegiack
elegiacs
elegiast
elegiasts
elegies
elegiographer
elegiographers
elegise
elegised
elegises
elegising
elegist

Literary usage of Elegiac stanza

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"The elegiac stanza consists of two verses, — a Hexameter followed by a Pentameter.1 ... The following verses will illustrate the forms of the elegiac stanza ..."

2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"elegiac stanza 616. The elegiac stanza consists of two verses, ... The following verses will illustrate the forms of the elegiac stanza : — cum subit ..."

3. Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar: For Schools and Colleges : Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1892)
"elegiac stanza. — Kingsley's Andromeda 363. The elegiac stanza consists of two lines, — an hexameter followed by a pentameter.1 The ..."

4. Allen and Greenough's Shorter Latin Grammar for Schools and Academies by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Albert Andrew Howard (1896)
"The elegiac stanza consists of two lines, — an hexameter followed by a ... The following verses will illustrate the forms of the elegiac stanza : — 1 Called ..."

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