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A rhyming couplet is two successive lines which rhyme, like "The play's the thing/ wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.", or "Blow, wind! Come wrack!/ At least we'll die with harness on our back!".

Shakespeare often placed them at the end of scenes where they give a sense of finality.

In about 1595 when he was writing Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, he wrote a lot of the dialogue in couplets, even when it was not at the end of a scene.

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