couplet
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Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."
From BBC • May 16, 2025
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
“And perhaps the sun blows kisses to the moon as it departs/they work two separate shifts with one beating heart” is a representative couplet from Hal’s verse.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
To avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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