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
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
Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed—he shrieked.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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