Assertion: elegy's form | /r/HasProperty | poetic
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text: In ancient Greek and Latin verse, the elegy was a poetic form that was defined by a particular metrical pattern called "elegiac couplets"—alternating lines of dactylic hexameter (six dactyls per line) and dactylic pentameter (five dactyls per line).
text: Elegies can take any poetic form, but Gray uses the “elegiac stanza,” which came into style during his time and which he perfected.