noun
- two successive lines of verse that usually rhyme and have the same meter
Usage: poetry
Examples
- The poem ended with a memorable couplet about love and loss.
- Shakespeare often concluded his sonnets with a rhyming couplet.
- The teacher asked students to write a couplet for their poetry assignment.
- Each couplet in the nursery rhyme had a simple AABB rhyme scheme.
- The heroic couplet was a popular form in 18th-century English poetry.
- She memorized the famous couplet from Alexander Pope’s work.