couplet

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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

On Sept. 6, 2014, when The Times asked for verse from readers, Koch weighed in with a long poem about grammar, which included this couplet:

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

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

To avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker