Meaning & use
Couplets
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Pairs of successive lines of verse, usually of the same length and rhyming with each other.
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The poem ends with a rhyming couplet that sums up its theme.
Shakespeare often closed his sonnets with couplets.
A note on using this word
The heroic couplet, two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter, was especially popular in 18th-century English poetry.
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