Relating to a metrical form combining elegiac and iambic verse patterns, used especially in classical Latin poetry.
From elegia (elegy) + iambic (from iambus, Greek for a metrical foot of short-long syllables). This is a technical term combining two classical poetic meters into a hybrid form.
This is the kind of word that makes English literature teachers smile—it's a hyper-specific term for mixing two ancient Greek and Latin verse styles, showing how obsessive classical poets were about precise rhythms.
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