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CoupletA 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 [..]
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CoupletAdjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.
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Couplet1570s, in poetry, from French couplet (mid-14c.), a diminutive of couple (see couple (n.)). In music, from 1876.
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CoupletTwo 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 [..]
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CoupletA 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 & [..]
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CoupletA pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza
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Couplettwo consecutive lines of verse linked by rhyme and meter; the meter of a heroic couplet is iambic pentameter.
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Coupleta 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 [..]
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CoupletA pair of lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same number of feet.
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Couplet – a poem or stanza of two line
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Couplet a pair of lines, usually rhymed
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CoupletTwo lines of verse which rhyme with each other. Cuneiform
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CoupletIn poetry, a pair of rhyming lines often appearing at the end of a sonnet.
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Coupleta 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 [..]
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CoupletA stanza comprising of two lines.
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Couplet(n) two items of the same kind(n) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
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CoupletA term used by Ford to describe a Model- T, two seater Cabriolet.
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CoupletAdjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.
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CoupletAdjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.
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Coupleta 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 [..]
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Couplet
(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 [..]
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CoupletThese 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 [..]
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