Couplet
noun
Two lines of a poem that have the same rhythm and often rhyme.
She ended her poem with a powerful couplet that left the audience in awe.
Often appears as...
- rhythmic couplet
- rhyming couplet
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Poetic
noun
Two similar things or parts together.
The twins formed an inseparable couplet of mischief and fun.
Often appears as...
- pair couplet
- twin couplet
noun
A certain musical note/term representing two equal and adjacent notes.
The piece was characterized by the repeated use of couplets.
Often appears as...
- note couplet
- music couplet
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Technical
noun
Two lines of a poem that have the same rhythm and often rhyme.
She ended her poem with a powerful couplet that left the audience in awe.
Often appears as...
- rhythmic couplet
- rhyming couplet
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
Two similar things or parts together.
The twins formed an inseparable couplet of mischief and fun.
Often appears as...
- pair couplet
- twin couplet
noun
A certain musical note/term representing two equal and adjacent notes.
The piece was characterized by the repeated use of couplets.
Often appears as...
- note couplet
- music couplet
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Structure
Couplets often mark the end of a sonnet, serving as a punchy conclusion to the poem.
The sonnet's argument built up to a poignant couplet that summarized its themes.
Pro Tip 2/3Memorable Rhymes
English learners might find rhyming couplets easier to remember due to their rhythmic and rhyming pattern.
To improve vocabulary, memorize a couplet each day.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressive Pauses
A couplet can create a dramatic pause, especially when recited, emphasizing the message.
He paused after the couplet, letting the words sink in.
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Structure
Couplets often mark the end of a sonnet, serving as a punchy conclusion to the poem.
The sonnet's argument built up to a poignant couplet that summarized its themes.
Pro Tip 2/3Memorable Rhymes
English learners might find rhyming couplets easier to remember due to their rhythmic and rhyming pattern.
To improve vocabulary, memorize a couplet each day.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressive Pauses
A couplet can create a dramatic pause, especially when recited, emphasizing the message.
He paused after the couplet, letting the words sink in.
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Structure
Couplets often mark the end of a sonnet, serving as a punchy conclusion to the poem.
The sonnet's argument built up to a poignant couplet that summarized its themes.
Pro Tip 2/3Memorable Rhymes
English learners might find rhyming couplets easier to remember due to their rhythmic and rhyming pattern.
To improve vocabulary, memorize a couplet each day.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressive Pauses
A couplet can create a dramatic pause, especially when recited, emphasizing the message.
He paused after the couplet, letting the words sink in.
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The weird, wonderful,...
and discrete I seek I am back writings to retweet and indeed it searches Twitter looking for lines of text in Shakespeare's preferred meter and retweeting couplet of them to great effect now we're in dust the breathless
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Sting: How I started...
that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole,
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Will our kids be a...
you get a primordial soup and that creates life and life starts to expand and expand and expand until it goes couplet now the really strange thing is
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The weird, wonderful,...
and discrete I seek I am back writings to retweet and indeed it searches Twitter looking for lines of text in Shakespeare's preferred meter and retweeting couplet of them to great effect now we're in dust the breathless
Video examples
Sting: How I started...
that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole,
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Will our kids be a...
you get a primordial soup and that creates life and life starts to expand and expand and expand until it goes couplet now the really strange thing is
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Quote examples
James Fenton
British Poet
This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.
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Tom Morello
American Musician
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
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Margo Jefferson
American Critic
My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
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Adam Schlesinger
American Musician
With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.
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Javed Akhtar
Indian Activist
By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old.
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David Ives
American Playwright
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
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Rosanne Cash
American Musician
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
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Frank Black
American Musician
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
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Sherman Alexie
American Writer
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
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Brook Lopez
American Basketball Player
Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet.
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James Fenton
British Poet
This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.
Quote examples
Tom Morello
American Musician
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
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Margo Jefferson
American Critic
My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
Quote examples
Adam Schlesinger
American Musician
With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.
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Javed Akhtar
Indian Activist
By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old.
Quote examples
David Ives
American Playwright
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
Quote examples
Rosanne Cash
American Musician
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
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Frank Black
American Musician
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
Quote examples
Sherman Alexie
American Writer
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
Quote examples
Brook Lopez
American Basketball Player
Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet.
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