couplet

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A noun referring to a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same meter, forming a complete unit or stanza.

1. Poetic formB2formal

   Two consecutive lines of poetry that typically rhyme and have the same meter.

   Reimpaar

   • Shakespeare often ended his sonnets with a rhyming couplet.
   • The poem consists of several heroic couplets.
   • She memorized a couplet from Alexander Pope's work.

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2. Pair of linesB2formal

   Any two lines of verse, especially when they form a unit.

   Reimpaar

   • The teacher asked the students to write a couplet about nature.
   • Each stanza in the song ends with a repeated couplet.
   • He recited a couplet from a medieval ballad.

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