couplet

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heroic couplet
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In poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words
{n} two verses, a pair of rhymes, a pair
- two successive lines of poetry
Two line rhyming poem (Your couplets do not have to rhyme )
- a stanza of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter
two items of the same kind
2 lines of verse which rhyme with each other
A pair of rhymed lines (of any specificable length or rhythm)
a pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length, termed "closed" when they form a bounded grammatical unit like a sentence, and termed "heroic" in 17th- and 18th-century verse when serious in subject, five-foot iambic in form, and holding a complete thought
A two-liner, generally rhymed
a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
A pair of lines that usually has a rhyme scheme of aa A couplet can be it's own form or appear within another form, usually at the end For example a Shakespearean sonnet usually ends with a couplet
Two lines of poetry, often rhyming together
Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other
In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet
Two lines of poetry that have the same meter, and rhyme scheme Example: I'm being driven up the WALL I need to make a phone CALL D
  two line stanza
{i} two rhyming lines of verse (Poetry)
In poetry, two lines that rhyme and are similar in length Example #1: "First Fight Then Fiddle " by Gwendolyn Brooks "With feathery sorcery; muzzle the note With hurting love; the music that they wrote " Both of the lines rhyme because of the words note and wrote The two lines are also close to the smae length and have the same meter Example #2: "Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herrick "A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantoness These two lines use the words dress and wantoness to make them rhyme with each other The lines also seem to follow the same rhythm pattern (Example: A sweet -disorder- in- the dress, kindles- in clothes -a wan-toness ) Example #3: "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" bye Adrienne Rich "Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizensof a world of green The use of the words screen and green make these two lines rhyme The two lines have the same meter These lines are also similar in length
Two successive lines of poetry, usually of equal length and rhythmic correspondence, with end-words that rhyme The couplet, for practical purposes, is the shortest stanza form, but is frequently joined with other couplets to form a poem with no stanzaic divisions, as in Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess " Sidelight: If the couplet is written in iambic pentameter, it is called an heroic couplet (See also Closed Couplet Open Couplet, Distich, Elegiac)
two consecutive premature complexes; usually of the ventricular type
A couplet is two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme with each other and are the same length. rhyming couplets. two lines of poetry, one following the other, that are the same length (cople; COUPLE). Two successive lines of verse. A couplet is marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained utterance. Couplets may be independent poems, but they usually function as parts of other verse forms, such as the Shakespearean sonnet, which concludes with a couplet. A couplet that cannot stand alone is an open couplet; a couplet whose sense is relatively independent is a closed couplet

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closed couplet
a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit
closed couplet
A rhymed couplet forming a complete thought or syntactic unit, for example, "True wit is nature to advantage dressed,/What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed" (Alexander Pope)
couplets
plural of couplet
elegiac couplet
A unit of verse in Greek and Roman prosody consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
heroic couplet
a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
heroic couplet
A verse unit consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter. a pair of lines in poetry which end with the same sound and that have five beats in each line
couplet

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    cou·plet

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    Etymology

    [ 'k&-pl&t ] (noun.) 1580. Middle French, diminutive of cople.
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