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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
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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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