Read full poem →than by Pope's couplet, which most judiciously, by reversing the two
clauses, gains the power of fusing them into connection.--DE QUINCEY.]
Dictionary Entry
A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. coupletcouplet heroiccouplet finalcouplet followingcouplet firstcouplet lastcouplet rhymed
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Poetry examples for “couplet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He was indebted to a second couplet in the same translation, AEn. ii.
565:
Read full poem →[Footnote 50: This couplet was interpolated by Pope and seems to have
been suggested by his hostility to the revolution of 1688. Nor does
Read full poem →of Dryden, from whose translation of Virg. AEn. viii. 107, Pope has
borrowed the entire couplet:
Read full poem →plea of an advocate as the measured summing-up of a judge, and the last
couplet falls on our ears with the inevitability of a final sentence.
But the peculiar merit of the 'Epistle to Arbuthnot' consists neither in
Read full poem →[424] Marlowe has put his negative in the wrong place and made nonsense
of the couplet:--
Read full poem →In Marlowe's copy the couplet must have been very different.
Read full poem →--Tout en lui préparant du sirop de framboises--
Sa "demoiselle" chante un couplet de Nadaud.
Read full poem →In another I find a perfect speech in a literality which
will be to many most unacceptable. The couplet is as follows:
Read full poem →text from that found in Cl., Cp., and H. The most noteworthy differences
are as follows. In Bk. ii. 734, 5, this MS. has quite a different couplet,
viz.: