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couplet

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Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

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Accordingly, Bott concludes that the poem was an attempt to expand Valiente's couplet into a full Wiccan credo, written by someone who misunderstood the archaic language they attempted to imitate. Source: Internet

Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees citation first published in 1915. Source: Internet

As Mark Twain is said to have said, history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes, and if that’s so, the two epidemics, 104 year apart, are forming a tidy couplet. Source: Internet

At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry, and Pope's most ambitious work. Source: Internet

As with other poetic techniques, poets use it to suit their own purposes; for example William Shakespeare often used a rhyming couplet to mark off the end of a scene in a play. Source: Internet

A few people I've spoken to found the sentiment obnoxious, but to me the second half of this couplet captured perfectly the low-level digitally assisted narcissism of the current age. Source: Internet

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