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- Dictionarycouplet/ˈkʌplɪt/
noun
- 1. a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
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Pair of lines of metre in poetry; two line stanza making complete sense
In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second. Wikipedia