Meaning & use
couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry, usually of the same length and rhyming, that express a complete thought.
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Shakespeare often chose to end his sonnets with a rhyming couplet.
The poem's final couplet captured its entire theme in just two lines.
A note on using this word
A couplet's two lines typically share the same meter as well as rhyme, giving it a neat, closed sound.
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