Both Uses of
couplet
in
Middlemarch
- It was not about the beginning of his speech that Mr. Brooke was at all anxious; this, he felt sure, would be all right; he should have it quite pat, cut out as neatly as a set of couplets from Pope.†
Chpt 5 *couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
- This was a bold figure of speech, but not exactly the right thing; for, unhappily, the pat opening had slipped away—even couplets from Pope may be but "fallings from us, vanishings," when fear clutches us, and a glass of sherry is hurrying like smoke among our ideas.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
poetry: two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed