Definitions

1. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit.
2. A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed.
3. A couplet is a poem made of two lines of rhyming poetry that usually have the same meter.
4. A couplet is a two-line stanza; if the two lines rhyme it is called a rhyming couplet.
5. A couplet is a simple poem consisting of two lines with the ending words rhyming.

Opening Couplet

1. However, the first or opening couplet is a special one since it has the refrain at the end of both lines.
2. The opening couplet of the ghazal is always a representative couplet: it sets the mood and tone of the poem and prepares us for its proper appreciation.
3. The poem ends with an envoi and the last two lines are the opening couplet in reversed order.

Ababcdcdefefgg

1. A combinations of three quatrains and a couplet, ababcdcdefefgg, yields the Elizabethan sonnet.
2. Shakespeare developed the English Sonnet for his rhyme-poor native tongue: three Sicilian quatrains followed by a heroic couplet (ababcdcdefefgg).

Final Rhyming Couplet

1. The final rhyming couplet has the rhyme scheme: gg.
2. Shakespearean sonnets have a final rhyming couplet.

Ending Couplet

1. One problem with the Elizabethan sonnet is its ending couplet, which can create a very harsh ending.

Closing Couplet

1. The Shakespearean stanza has three quatrains in a row — with different rhymes for each quatrain, and then a closing couplet.
2. Ottava rima is a rhyming scheme using a stanza of eight lines with an alternating a-b rhyming scheme for the first six lines followed by a closing couplet.
3. The closing couplet is a conclusion based on the material contained in the quatrains.

Matla

1. Each couplet must also have an opening couplet called a matla.

Final Couplet

1. The Shakespearean or English sonnet is arranged as three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
2. The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and a final couplet which usually provides an epigrammatic statement of the theme.
3. B) The English sonnet (Shakespearean) comprises 3 quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg.

Faith

1. Iqbal's intense love for and faith in Imam Husayn is apparent from this couplet.

Third

1. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

Short

1. An octosyllabic couplet is also sometimes called a short couplet.
2. Never has the short couplet revealed its flexibility to better advantage than in Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso and in Coleridge's Christabel.
3. Epigram A very short, ironic and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain.

Chaucer

1. Following are examples of iambic pentameter couplets the first, from chaucer, represents an early use of the couplet, though not as a stanza.
2. Heroic couplet was first used by Chaucer.

Works

1. Shakespeare himself often works a statement of its own into that last couplet, but it also usually ties in pretty closely with the third quatrain.
2. Twentieth century authors have occasionally made use of the heroic couplet, often as an allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries.

Attempt

1. Attempt a couplet that consists of a pair of rhyming lines and you may even want to create a series of couplets.

Anything

1. A work isn't long if you can't take anything out of it, but you, Cosconius, write even a couplet too long.

Closed

1. A closed COUPLET is where both lines are end-stopped (pause at the end).
2. What oft was thought, but ne er so well express d" is an example of the closed couplet in heroic verse from alexander pope s essay on criticism.

Second

1. There are two cross rhymes in the second couplet, none in the first.
2. There are two cross-rhymes in the second couplet.

Hand

1. Reverse sonnet: a comic form invented in Wilfred Owens' sonnet "Hand trembling towards hand," which starts with the couplet rather than ending with it.
2. On the other hand, Elizabethan sonnets consisted of three quatrains with a couplet with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg.

First Three

1. The second part which is a couplet, intensifies and polishes up the meaning of the first three lines.

Subject

1. There should not be continuous development of a subject from one couplet to the next through the poem.
2. The couplet at the end is for the poet's final thoughts on the subject.

Commentary

1. The couplet at the end is usually a commentary on the foregoing.
2. The three quatrains then develop three distinct but closely related ideas, with a different idea (or commentary) in the couplet.

Stand

1. Every couplet in a Ghazal should express a single thought or focus on a certain theme in such a way that it has the ability to stand alone.

Verses

1. Rhyming Couplet: A rhyming couplet is a pair of verses that rhyme.
2. Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

Terms

1. Couplet is one of the terms of poetry.
2. In the second couplet of the heavily end-stopped poem, paradox is emphasized again, this time in the terms of leaf and flower instead of green and gold.

Set Forth

1. Usually the question or theme is set forth in the quatrains while the answer or resolution appears in the final couplet.

Makes Sense

1. The couplet is a way of saying nothing that preceded it makes sense.

Sense

1. CLOSED COUPLET A couplet in which the sense and syntax is self-contained within its two lines, as opposed to an open couplet.
2. A couplet that cannot stand alone is an open couplet; a couplet whose sense is relatively independent is a closed couplet.
3. Each quatrain presents a shorter unit of time, creating a sense of time accelerating toward an inevitable end, the death implied in the final couplet.

Thought

1. The most common rhyme scheme is A-B-A-B C-D-C-D E-F-E-F G-G. In Shakespeare, the couplet often undercuts the thought created in the rest of the poem.
2. Open Couplet - A couplet of the Romantic period with run-on lines, in which the thought was carried beyond the rhyming lines of the couplet.
3. Each couplet may be thought of as a thematic vignette that need not relate to it adjacent couplets.

Idea

1. To get an idea of how this works, let's take a look at the quatrains of Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII, excluding the couplet for now.
2. Each couplet, holding the complete expression of an idea, is self-contained, and is a poem in itself.
3. We think the idea of the couplet came from the French and English.

Word

1. There are at least two cross-rhymes in each couplet and the final word of line three rhymes with a word in the interior of line four.
2. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhyme s.

Syllable

1. Each stanza combines one couplet of eight syllable lines a.

Necklace

1. Each couplet should be a poem in itself, like a pearl in a necklace.

Structure

1. Its structure is four-part, based on three quatrains and a couplet, although stanza breaks are optional.

Last

1. Repetition in the first and last couplet of each stanza makes these lines into a refrain, and helps to give the poem its song-like quality.
2. Another Ghazal from Homam Tabrizi where all the couplets except the last couplet is in Persian.
3. The last couplet of the ghazal is very important, this is called the maqta.

Four

1. Each is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter, comprising four sections: three quatrains, or groups of four lines, followed by a couplet of two lines.
2. Left: Although the rhyme scheme is AABB, many would consider this a quatrain, not a couplet, because the meaning is in lines of four.
3. A quatrain is four lines of verse; a couplet is two lines.

Poets

1. We'll dine upon a quatrain, A sonnet, maybe two, While drinking from a couplet Just like the poets do.
2. Poets such as Edmund Waller, Dryden, and Pope then made an issue of "closing" the couplet so that it would be tighter and more concise.
3. Neo-Classicism meant that poets attempted adaptations of Classical meters, but the rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter held a near monopoly.

Poet

1. One interesting thing about it is that it traditionally includes a maqta, a couplet that incorporates the name of the poet.
2. The last couplet usually is a signature couplet, where the poet includes his or her pen name.
3. Usually, the poet would look at a problem or situation in three different ways (one per quatrain) before summing up his opinion in the couplet.

Words

1. However, Steve's vocals are prominently featured, as he sings the first few words of each couplet before Marc comes in.

Sentence

1. In the closed couplet, the idea or image as well as the sentence is complete.

Fourteen

1. In the fourteen lines of the sonnet there are three quatrains and a final couplet.

Beginning

1. Thus leaving the final couplet to deliver quite conventionally and deliberately, with the customary volta, or turn, at the beginning of line 13.

Variations

1. There are several set forms of the couplet and a myriad of variations based on line length and meter.
2. Like the couplet, there are many variations of the quatrain.

Theme

1. In Shakespeare's sonnets, the couplet usually summarizes the theme of the poem or introduces a fresh new look at the theme.
2. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet.
3. Usually a question or theme is set forth in quatrains and answered in couplet.

Abba

1. Also, the first two quatrains of the sonnet have identical rhyme schemes (abba) and the sonnet ends with a rhyming couplet (ee).

First Line

1. The first line of the couplet mentioned that Zhuge Liang is expert in psychological tactics.
2. Contrast Couplet: A couplet in which the first line includes two words that are opposites.

Pair

1. Used mainly as expressions of social criticism or political satire, the most common forms are written as a couplet: a pair of rhymed lines in the same meter.
2. Couplet A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
3. Shakespearean sonnets consist of three quatrains, or groups of 4 lines, and a final couplet, or pair of rhymed lines.

First

1. And the quafia continues with the words "tableau" and "echo," which rhyme with "yellow" and "tremolo" from the first couplet.
2. The first couplet has the rhyme scheme in both lines and the others, only in the second lines.
3. In the second couplet, the rhymes must be exact, but the first couplet need only consonate.

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2. Couplets
3. Iambic Pentameter
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