The word 'distich' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a pair of lines of poetry, usually rhyming and expressing a complete thought. Example: The poet composed a beautiful distich about the beauty of nature: "The sun sets on the horizon's edge, Casting hues of gold and orange, a sight to pledge."
The collection is completed by 48 "epigrams" written in the elegiac distich, or pair of verse lines, and extending between 2 and 12 lines, a limit exceeded only by two poems, one of 26 lines and the other of 16.
The occasional-verse metres and the elegiac distich had been introduced into Latin before his day.
A fundamental type is monorhyme the repetition of the same rhyming sound at the end of each distich, with the exception of the first distich, in which the first hemistich also uses that same rhyme (such a poem would be represented by the rhyme scheme aabaca).
The prosody of classical Persian verse is based on the distich, called a bayt, which consists of half lines that are metrically identical (isometric hemistichs).
The only form not conforming to the rule of monorhyme is the masnawi, or poem in couplets, in which each distich has a separate internal rhyme, which changes with each new distich (aabbcc and so on).
The pen name (mahlas) of the poet usually appeared in the closing distich.
Gosse claimed that the first English poet to write in distichs was the hero of his small volume, Edmund Waller, who is now known mostly for his lyrics "Go, Lovely Rose" and "On a Girdle," and who had, with Gossean facility, written panegyrics to both Oliver Cromwell and the restored King Charles.
In the same year, Goethe spent two months in and around Venice, and in the autumn he accompanied Charles Augustus to Silesia and Kraków, but the literary rewards of these journeys were slight: distichs in the Classical manner on his experiences, some of them bitterly satirical of contemporary political and intellectual developments.
Ghazals are much shorter poems, usually no more than 7 to 10 distichs.
This fragment survived as a result of Ferdowsī, the greatest epic poet of Persia, who included Daqīqī's lines in his Shāh-nāmeh ("Book of Kings"), an epic poem of approximately 50,000 distichs that he completed about 1010.
Composed of a series of couplets (distichs), it was subject to a single metrical scheme and was usually in monorhyme, often using a repeated word (redîf).
