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
“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
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
I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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