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couplet

[kuhp-lit] / ˈkʌp lɪt /
NOUN
pair
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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

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

By 2012's All Too Well, she was capable of writing this devastating couplet: "You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest."

From BBC • Oct. 19, 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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