A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length. A couplet is “closed” when the lines form a bounded grammatical unit like a sentence (see Dorothy Parker’s “Interview”: “The ladies men [..]

Adjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.

1570s, in poetry, from French couplet (mid-14c.), a diminutive of couple (see couple (n.)). In music, from 1876.

Two lines--the second line immediately following the first--of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit. Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers helped popularize the form in En [..]

A verse form, rhyming aa bb cc dd. Rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter are sometimes called heroic couplets. A couplet meant to stand alone as an entire poem is sometimes called a distich (meaning & [..]

A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza

two consecutive lines of verse linked by rhyme and meter; the meter of a heroic couplet is iambic pentameter.

a rhymed pair of lines, which are usually of the same length. If these are iambic pentameters it is termed a heroic couplet. This form was made popular by Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and became th [..]

A pair of lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same number of feet.

 – a poem or stanza of two line

 a pair of lines, usually rhymed

Two lines of verse which rhyme with each other. Cuneiform

In poetry, a pair of rhyming lines often appearing at the end of a sonnet.

a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends. The most popular of the couplets is the heroic couplet. The heroic couplet consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter usually having a pause in the middle of each line. One of William Shakespeare's trademarks was to end a sonnet with a couplet, as i [..]

A stanza comprising of two lines.   

(n) two items of the same kind(n) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

A term used by Ford to describe a Model- T, two seater Cabriolet.

Adjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.

Adjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.

a two-line rhyming unit which can be used in poetic narrative (Chaucer's "General Prologue") and as a "turning" or "concluding" unit in a sho [..]

(literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas. ''5th Street is one-way west only and 6th S [..]

These cute little buggers are tiny stanzas. So tiny, in fact, that they only include two lines. Sometimes they rhyme, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're written in meter (as in heroic c [..]