couplet
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- noun
- /ˈkʌplɪt/
- Literature
- Such a reading was supported by the familiar couplet from Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale":
- heroic couplets
- rhymed couplets
- final couplet
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Watch on YouTubeIt makes it more like a a couplet in poetry.
- It makes it more like a a couplet in poetry.
- The the ACT ends with a couplet.
- So all of my bad poetry was like rhyming couplets.
- It's all couplets, rhyming couplets, and it's exactly like rap except without the bad music.
- An elegiac couplet mourning a good sun to reverse the reverse becomes the work.
- It's written in couplets, and what connects the couplets is a repeating refrain at the end of each couplet.
Examples
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Many classic poems feature a couplet at the end of each stanza to emphasize the theme.
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For the poet, the heroic couplet is a wickedly difficult frame in which to narrate.
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In this couplet, Pope does more than simply argue that poets are not born but instead are made.
Academic text (2017) -
Following is an example of a couplet from the chirigota "Miss Dead."
Academic text (1998) -
The first song that accompanies this movement is a couplet repeated many times:
Academic text (1998) -
Take one of the smallest and apparently most elementary of the standard poetic forms, the couplet.
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Charles Lamb once wrote a humorous couplet: For thy sake, Tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Academic text (1991) -
Teach ballads, narrative poems, couplets, and free verse.
Academic text (2015) -
As in the first couplet but a little more overtly, an ironic knowingness permeates this second couplet.
Academic text (2003) -
And of course, finally, Moulsworth ends her poem in the fifty-fifth couplet, signifying her fifty-five years of age.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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Two rhymed lines with five beats each, often used in formal English poems
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Two lines of poetry that rhyme and give a complete thought
Compounds
- Literature
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Two rhymed lines with five beats each, often used in formal English poems
How Many
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word couplet comes from French couple with the small ending -et, and it literally means 'little pair', so in poetry it became a 'pair' of lines that belong together and often rhyme.