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
ChatGPT failed the assignment, writing a couplet consisting of seven characters.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 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
But “Lip Service” by Costello and the Attractions has the all-time classic couplet: “When did you become so choosy? Don’t act like you’re above me, just look at your shoes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
“Iambic pentameter, and a rhyming couplet, too,” she said, pleased with her effort.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Mr. Power’s previous books have mostly been about 18th-century writers, yet he is as much at home with recent free verse as with rhymed couplets and sonnets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
On Chinese social media, pictures show some users sticking couplets or upside down pictures of Malfoy's signature smirk.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
“Not that again. Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off” I shuddered.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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