Give you an example of a couplet?

Answer 1

A pair of rhymed lines followed by another pair of rhymed lines

Answer 2

A pair of rhymed lines that are roughly the same length

Answer 3

The heroic couplet consists of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter that is a rhetorical unit; that is, it expresses a whole thought. Shakespeare's sonnets end with heroic couplets. Here is some Shakespeare:

End of Sonnet XIV

Or else of thee this I prognosticate:

Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.

End of Sonnet XVIII

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

End of Sonnet LXXXVIII

Such is my love, to thee I so belong,

That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.

Here are two entire poems by Robert Frost, each of which is one heroic couplet:

From Iron

Nature within her inmost self divides

To trouble men with having to take sides.

[Forgive, O Lord..]

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

William Butler Yeats: The Statues, (1939) This couplet ends the poem:

Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace

The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.

Also Yeats: Vacillation (1933) ending verse three:

No man has ever lived that had enough

Of children's gratitude or woman's love.

Note:

Rhyme is not as common an element in serious poetry as it was in the past; if you enjoy writing poetry, read some good current poets and see if you can write rhythmically and expressively without falling into the trap of mangling lines to force a rhyme.

Answer 4

A pair of rhymes lines not separated by another

Answer 5

A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are written in rhyming couplets. John Dryden in the 17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.

Because the rhyme comes so quickly in rhyming couplets, it tends to call attention to itself. Good rhyming couplets tend to "snap" as both the rhyme and the idea come to a quick close in two lines. Here are some examples of rhyming couplets where the sense as well as the sound "rhymes":

"True wit is nature to advantage dressed / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."

--Alexander Pope

"Whether or not we find what we are seeking / is idle, biologically speaking."

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay (at the end of a sonnet)

On the other hand, because rhyming couplets have such a predictable rhyme scheme, they can feel artificial and plodding. Here is a Pope parody of the predictable rhymes of his era:

"Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze," / In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;" / If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," / The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."

Answer 6

Here are a few examples of couplets:

*The sun is shining brightly.

The rain is sprinkling lightly.

*The river bands were high.

Now the river banks are dry.

*My lollipop is sweet

that you just can't beat

Answer 7

As a couplet is a two line verse that rhymes and has a rhythm to it, perhaps to convey something, an example could be:

If you take four from eleven,

Then you should then be left with seven.

Multiple couplets can be joined together to make a verse.

Answer 8

a pair of rhymed lines not separated by another line

Answer 9

His wife ran away and i know that hell miss her.

The women was frightened that one day he'd kiss her.

He preached a lot and had a dream

Of everybody eating ice cream.

Answer 10

WELL IT LIKE

god means to me love faith and compassion,

i don't know why people have to follow the fashion,