Pair of lines of metre in poetry; two line stanza making complete sense.
Popular risqué Spanish theatre song style.
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Examples for "couplet "
Examples for "couplet "
1 The honored antiquity of it is preserved in the anonymous English couplet :
2 I remember the following couplet in allusion to the King and himself:
3 The heroic couplet in which it was cast was the standard metre.
4 And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet -
5 The first number in each couplet represented a line on page 186.
1 The stanza containing the distich ends with a striking piece of realism:
2 In this distich is comprised the noblest panegyrick, and the most important instruction.
3 The opening distich indicates that the poem is addressed to Tuticanus.
4 Garrick immediately said his epitaph was finished, and spoke the following distich extempore:
5 Augustin caused to have written on the walls a distich , which ran thus:
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