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How to pronounce couplet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brace, couple, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke
Type of two, deuce, ii, 2
Has types doubleton
Type Words
Type of stanza
Has types heroic couplet, closed couplet

Examples of couplet

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The form consists of fourteen lines structured as three quatrains and a couplet.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One night, they wrote a couplet in return for the demonstration of a back flip.
From the stltoday.com
This may be illustrated via a couplet from the beginning of one of Hafez'poems.
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It has the alliteration if not the catchiness of the famous Spahn-and-Sain couplet.
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The about-face in this couplet, near the start of the album, is in character.
From the dispatch.com
This is the same couplet that begins the great poem of Hanuman, the Hanuman Chalisa.
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Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century.
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You write a three verse ballad, in five iamb lines, then whack a couplet on the end.
From the guardian.co.uk
At this time, he often used poetic forms such as the sonnet and the rhyming couplet.
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More examples
  • Couple: two items of the same kind
  • A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
  • A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. ...
  • "Couplet" is episode 14 of season 3 in the television show Angel.
  • In poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words
  • Adjacent maxima of radial velocities of opposite signs.
  • In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet.
  • A device for a brace of dogs
  • (KUP-let): a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends. The most popular of the couplets is the heroic couplet. The heroic couplet consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter usually having a pause in the middle of each line. ...