A- A couplet is technically two consecutive lines that rhyme. Thanks for playing along.
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Not always, but thanks.
apr 30, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
"Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit." Couplets, by definition, always rhyme. Otherwise, they are simply paired lines that may be of the same length and meter: for example, iambic pentameter lines are all 10 syllables, but not necessarily rhymed.
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P.S. This has been fun and a great escape from all the dismal political news.
apr 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 2 0 • view
It has, thank you!
apr 30, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
Source? A pair of unrhymed lines of verse would never be called a couplet in any traditional sense. I suppose that current criticism has allowed the term to apply to a set of even length, paired lines set off from the rest of the poem. No professor I ever had for 3 degrees in English would say so.
apr 30, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
Oxford languages.
apr 30, 2025, 2:48 am • 2 0 • view
Shucks, my definition comes from Cambridge University. 😉
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