In the last book there is a noticeable widening of range of subject, which foreshadows the further development that elegiac verse took in the hands of Ovid soon after his death.
In the former view the book falls into three sections--the pure lyrics, the idyllic pieces, and the poems in elegiac verse.
Finally comes a third group of poems, extending to the end of the volume, all written in elegiac verse, but otherwise extremely varied in date, subject, and manner.
The boy of twenty had already mastered the secret of elegiac verse, which even Catullus had used stiffly and awkwardly, and writes it with an ease, a colour, a sumptuousness of rhythm which no later poet ever equalled.
The first eighteen lines are a witty demonstration of the impossibility of using Tuticanus' name in elegiac verse, while the twelve verses that follow recall their poetic apprenticeship together.
The poems use the metre and language of elegiac verse.
Since archaeology became systematically studied, original inscriptions, chiefly on marble, are from time to time brought to light, many of which are in elegiac verse.
Again, many of the so-called epideictic epigrams are little more than stories told shortly in elegiac verse, much like the stories in Ovid's Fasti.
These are followed by seven longer poems in imitation of Alexandrian originals, and the rest of the collection consists of short pieces, all in elegiac verse.
The fourth poem is the Copa (barmaid), consisting of only thirty-eight lines of elegiac verse.
Most of the poems are in elegiac verse, but many are in hendecasyllables, and a few other metres occur.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elegiac verse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
