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closed couplet
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closed couplet
n.
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).
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Noun1.closed couplet - a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit
couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed


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