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couplet

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cou·plet  (kplt)
n.
1. A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
2. Two similar things; a pair.

[French, from Old French, diminutive of couple, couple; see couple.]

couplet [ˈkʌplɪt]
n
(Literature / Poetry) two successive lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same metre
[from French, literally: a little pair; see couple]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.coupletcouplet - two items of the same kind          
fellow, mate - one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"
2, II, two, deuce - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
2.couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem
closed couplet - a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit
heroic couplet - a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Translations
couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] Npareado m
couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] ndistique m
couplet
nVerspaar nt
couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] ndistico
couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] ndistico


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But a correct sonnet ought not to end with a couplet, that is two riming lines.
Even so, several of them do not really belong to the series; composed in stanza forms, they are selected from his earlier poems and here pressed into service, and on the average they are less excellent than those which he wrote for their present places (in the rimed pentameter couplet that he adopted from the French).
So it was strange to me to discover presently that he had not been thinking of me at all, but of his own young days, when that couplet sang in his head, and he, too, had thirsted to set off for Grub Street, but was afraid, and while he hesitated old age came, and then Death, and found him grasping a box-iron.
 
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