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The countryish “Run Away” opens with the couplet “In the time of confession / In the hour of the storm,” as Beck, sounding dejected and lost, begs not to be left alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Would you say that sums up the spirit of “Elsinore” about as well as any couplet could?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

The chapters are arranged like the bayts, or couplets, of a ghazal, and they describe a succession of infatuations, some romantic and some purely poetic, as in the odes to the 14th-century Persian lyricist Hafez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

There are, in fact, some rather disturbing rhymed couplets, if you will.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

It would be nice to say that I smiled and spoke of pleasant things in carefully metered rhyming couplets, like Prince Gallant from some faerie story.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss