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poetry: two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

She's fond of quoting Goethe couplets.

None of the older women had any education, but they all told stories and recited what we call tapa, Pashto couplets.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed

  Rather I receive your bullet-riddled body with honor
  Than news of your cowardice on the battlefield
      Traditional Pashto couplet
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

couplet = two successive lines of verse

It was mentioned as the most inspiring in the closing speech, and some in the audience asked him to repeat whole stanzas and couplets, exclaiming "Wah wah" when a particular line pleased them, which is a bit like "Bravo."
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

couplets = successive pairs of lines of verse

So Taleswapper spoke, forming the words into couplets as he said them because that was how visions ought to be expressed, in poetry.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
A view afterwards condensed into his memorable couplet: "Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian; we'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
It would be nice to say that I smiled and spoke of pleasant things in carefully metered rhyming couplets, like Prince Gallant from some faerie story.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Why could he never get more than a couplet at a time?
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow, ran the couplet.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed-he shrieked.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Five couplets of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
I long to compose rhymed couplets upon the poodle of a countess.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
I couldn't recall the last time someone had cared about me enough to curse my enemies with rhyming couplets.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
CYRANO (reciting, as if repeating a lesson): Know then that the ballade should contain Three eight-versed couplets....
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
The couplet does not cease to be, nor does its meaning change.
Jane Austen -- Emma

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