| He suggests that his happy-go-lucky rhyming verse and dogged meters work toward the same end, preserving some of the strict formality of Martial's elegiacs and hendecasyllables. |
| Ars amatoria comprises three books of mock-didactic elegiacs on the art of seduction and intrigue. |
| The elegiacs of the Theognidean collection are independent both stylistically and thematically. |
| Through the narrative, the poet's elegiacs become a leitmotif. |
| One young poet name Lydus Cattus dramatised a lovers' quarrel as a legal hearing, which he then set out in an agonising pastiche of Latin and Italian, hexameters, elegiacs and terza rima. |
| He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines. |
