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Elegiac vs Qasida - What's the difference?

elegiac | qasida |

As nouns the difference between elegiac and qasida

is that elegiac is a poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter while qasida is an Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.

As an adjective elegiac

is of, or relating to an elegy.

elegiac

English

(wikipedia elegiac)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to an elegy.
    • the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.

    Quotations

    * 1808 , , Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field , "Canto the Third: Introduction": *: Hast thou no elegiac verse *: For Brunswick's venerable hearse?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
  • * {{quote-book, 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, page=385 citation
    • , passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}

    qasida

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
  • * 1958 , Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar :
    • He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.
  • * 2000 : María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus
    • The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.