couplet
a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
a pair; couple.
Music. any of the contrasting sections of a rondo occurring between statements of the refrain.
Origin of couplet
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How to use couplet in a sentence
The Brooklyn rapper and skateboarder Sage Elsesser, who goes by Navy Blue, raps with a cool patience, his lyrics spilling out not so much in couplets as amorphous word clouds.
Jumping from couplets to capitalism, Alphonso, or at least its concentrated pulp, has starred for a decade alongside the waiting, pining, aching Bollywood beauty, Katrina Kaif, in a series of TV commercials for a popular mango drink made by Pepsi.
Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonableBut say you had it generate rhyming couplets with Shakespeare and Pope as examples.
Anthropic is the new AI research outfit from OpenAI’s Dario Amodei, and it has $124M to burn | Devin Coldewey | May 28, 2021 | TechCrunchHaiku are fine — 5-7-5, please — but I’ll also accept limericks and rhyming couplets.
I’ve waited 17 years to write about periodical cicadas again. The wait is over. | John Kelly | May 12, 2021 | Washington PostShockingly, this last couplet made it into the 1953 film version; someone was napping over at MGM.
When Broadway Musicals Were Dark And Subversive | Laurence Maslon | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Did they ever consider selecting the first line of this couplet for the title of their edition?
Beauty and Subversion in the Secret Poems of Afghan Women | Daniel Bosch | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTChina's use of these beasts always reminds me of a couplet I read years ago in a newspaper column.
To Honor Canada Hosting Two Giant Pandas, Here's Ten Beautiful Photos of Pandas | David Frum, Justin Green | March 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe commonest stanza is a quatrain consisting of four heptasyllabic lines with the rhyme at the end of the couplet.
Ancient Irish Poetry | VariousIn a couplet of passionate melancholy she asked, where are the roses of yesterday?
A German Pompadour | Marie HayJohn Briggs never took a dare, and at noon, when Mr. Cross was at home at dinner, he wrote flamingly the descriptive couplet.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineThat was the name they had given him; he could hear the night crowds shouting it in a silly couplet: Il nous faut-oBeau Cocono-o!
Through the Wall | Cleveland MoffettThe reading of each couplet by the minister before it was sung seemed to him a sort of recitative.
Duffels | Edward Eggleston
British Dictionary definitions for couplet
/ (ˈkʌplɪt) /
two successive lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same metre
Origin of couplet
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for couplet
A pair of lines of verse that rhyme. Some poems, such as “The Night Before Christmas,” are written entirely in couplets:
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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