couplets in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The lines are generally end-stopped, considered as a series of couplets, and exhibit verbal parallelism as a key poetic device.
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First, the play should be composed in heroic verse (closed couplets in iambic pentameter).
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In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c).
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They're built upon (sometimes spoken) couplets and refrains and often feature a lively crowd, cheering and singing along.
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There is disagreement about whether the term should also be applied to works written in elegiac couplets.
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Poems may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme.
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Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry.
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It replaced dialogue with actors singing and talking in rhyming couplets.
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When, by the rhyming couplets, they are made aware that the curtain is about to fall, they disappearthrough the intensity of the performers.
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Its lyrics, which consist almost entirely of rhyming couplets, describe a hallucinogenic drug made of light.
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