couplet
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So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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
As she read the rhyming couplet inscribed in a large clay jar made before the Civil War, the 84-year-old Northeast D.C. resident could feel pain and loneliness in the anguished voice of her enslaved ancestor.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
The ending, like a perfect rhyming couplet, is both unexpected and inevitable: It is, of course, the chosen card.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed—he shrieked.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Ahead of Lunar New Year this month, Chinese households typically decorate their doors with couplets - a set of auspicious writings heralding health and prosperity in the new year.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
He is the author of three collections of lyric poems and two book-length narrative poems in heroic couplets that nearly defy summary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
There are, in fact, some rather disturbing rhymed couplets, if you will.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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