distichs in English

noun
1
a pair of verse lines; a couplet.
He also wrote numerous poems in elegiac distichs .

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1. In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately Acatalectic and catalectic.