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Distich means (prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense..
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/ˈdɪstɪk/ · noun
(prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense..
Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.
Use distich when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Distich means (prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense..
Common synonyms include span, yoke, brace, dyad.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.
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