Elegiac Couplet

Elegiac couplets consist of alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter: two dactyls followed by a long syllable, a caesura, then two more dactyls followed by a long syllable. Example:
  In the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column,  In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. 

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