couplet
IPA: kˈʌpɫʌt
noun
- A set of two things, particularly
- (literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
- A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
- (taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
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Examples of "couplet" in Sentences
- These are compiled in the form of couplets.
- The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet.
- The rhyming couplet offers the final decision.
- The Poetic epigram is also in the couplet form.
- That first couplet is too perfect for explanation.
- A rhymed couplet closes, giving the moral of the story.
- The first couplet sings about the geography of Gelderland.
- The form of this ancient Greek poetry is an elegiac couplet.
- Rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter lines form the heroic couplet.
- The last couplet generally includes the signature of the author.
- The first poem is in alliterative verse, and the second is in rhyming couplets.
- Will stop now as the third couplet is even worse, and wouldn’t wish to give offence.
- A. 2.p. 242), we find that either line of the couplet is shortened by a foot; it is, therefore, majzú.
- (The first couplet is by Roger Boyle, the Earl of Orrery, 1621-79, and the second by the ever-great Anonymous.)
- When she came to him, radiant, her hands full of the lilies, a couplet from a favourite poem darted into his head –
- Most poems are odes or odes-in-spirit that marvel at the qualities of a creature in couplet quatrains or another traditional form.
- A major function of the eastside couplet is to integrate traffic onto the Bridgehead site to give it greater exposure (Opus's idea).
- The wasteful Burnside-Couch traffic "couplet" is having a "groundbreaking" tomorrow afternoon -- at least, the east side section of it.
- ‘Walter and Jane,’ the second poem, is an artless tale of two lovers, related with a simplicity by no means inelegant, in couplet verse; and to a manner calculated to remind the reader of the narrative style of our best