noun
- a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a rhyming couplet
Usage: literary
Examples
- The poet concluded each stanza with a memorable distich.
- Shakespeare often used a distich to end his sonnets.
- The distich provided a satisfying conclusion to the verse.
- Each distich in the poem contained a complete thought.
- The rhyming distich made the poem easy to memorize.
- Ancient Greek poetry frequently employed the distich form.