Coleridge enthusiastically appropriated Schiller's lines, even to the extent of changing into pure hexameters what in Schiller's original is an elegiac distich. |
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The occasional-verse metres and the elegiac distich had been introduced into Latin before his day. |
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He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller. |
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Throughout the West-Indoeuropean world, in Ireland, Gaul, and Italy, the universal appeal to the indigenous sense of rhythm is in the form of the tripudic dipody, whether in stichic, distich, or tetrastich form. |
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A forty minutes long disc consisting of nine tracks all based of the distich pattern of the second album, as a reminder: one long track, one short track, and so on. |
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