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cou·plet [ˈkʌplət] N

couplet

Verspaar nt

rhyming couplet

Reimpaar nt

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

heroic couplet

Herioc Couplet nt spec

rhyming couplet

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

At this time, he often used poetic forms such as the sonnet and the rhyming couplet. en.wikipedia.org

Poems may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. en.wikipedia.org

They're built upon (sometimes spoken) couplets and refrains and often feature a lively crowd, cheering and singing along. en.wikipedia.org

A few days before his death, he had composed a couplet that perhaps carried an indication of his passing away. en.wikipedia.org

Rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter lines form the heroic couplet. en.wikipedia.org

This couplet has been described in different pictures, movies, poems, and other pieces of arts. en.wikipedia.org

It opens with the couplet my brother you taught me how to fly, my papa you taught me how to cry. en.wikipedia.org

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). en.wikipedia.org

The lines are generally end-stopped, considered as a series of couplets, and exhibit verbal parallelism as a key poetic device. en.wikipedia.org

This consists of 626 lines of 10-syllable couplets and introduces significant variations. en.wikipedia.org

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