couplets
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All 17th-century French plays in verse alternate single and double alexandrine couplets.
And as he was imagining his beautiful scenario, some couplets presented themselves to him.
Across her poetry books, Joyce Sidman employs many different kinds of poetic forms, ranging from free verse, to concrete poetry, to rhyming couplets, to diamante, and others.
Beginning with the earlier recorded forms: the Classic of Poetry tends toward couplets of four-character lines, grouped in rhymed quatrains; and, the Chuci follows this to some extent, but moves toward variations in line length.
Elegiac verses appear, for example, in Petronius ' Satyricon, and Martial 's Epigrams uses it for many witty stand-alone couplets and for longer pieces.
However, speed metal is usually faster and more aggressive than traditional heavy metal, also showing more inclination to virtuoso soloing and featuring short instrumental passages between couplets.