Couplet |Couplet Definition | Couplet Literary Definition | Couplet Examples |Couplet Poem Examples
Couplet |Couplet Definition | Couplet Literary Definition |Rhyming Couplet |Rhyming Couplet Definition
Two verse lines rhyming together at the end.
Couplet Examples | Couplet Poem Examples
Blow, blow thou winter wind.
Thou art not so unkind
Thou art not so unkind
(Shakespeare: As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII)
These trimeter lines end with the same sound, "ind", and thus, they rhyme together .
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
(Nursery rhyme)
These two tetrameter lines end with the same sound, "all"
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep ,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep ,
And miles to go before I sleep
(Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening")
Each of the couples of these tetrameter lines ends with the same sound, and thus, rhyme together
Observe this"All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons, monarchs must obey".
.............(Dryden: Mac Flecknoe)
These iambic pentameter lines end with the same sound, and thus, they rhyme together. [see Heroic Couplet]
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