Definition of couplet

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Couplet (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

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Chorus :: Chorus (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus..
Villanelle :: Villanelle (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close..
Couplet :: Couplet (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter..
Stapedial :: Stanzaic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form..
Iambus :: Iambus (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n..
Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes..
Vaudeville :: Vaudeville (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song..
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