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noun

  • Two successive lines of poetry, typically of the same length and meter, that conclude with words that sound alike.

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As she read the rhyming couplet inscribed in a large clay jar made before the Civil War, the 84-year-old Northeast D.C. resident could feel pain and loneliness in the anguished voice of her enslaved ancestor.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023

In another conversation about the "near abroad", a friend recited a rhyming couplet to me.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022

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  • paired verse
  • final two
  • two-line rhyme
  • heroic couplet

Possible Antonyms

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  • unrhymed stanza
  • asymmetrical verse
  • disjointed lines

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