couplet
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But I think that couplet is really powerful and it did what we wanted it to do.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024
“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
By 2012's All Too Well, she was capable of writing this devastating couplet: "You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest."
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022
The title, “Doha,” — the word means couplet — refers to a couplet by the 18th-century Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir, about the delicacy of the universe.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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