couplet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   two successive lines of verse that form a unit, often sharing a meter and rhyme

   The poem ends with a rhyming couplet that summarizes its argument.

2. 2
   noun

   a pair of corresponding or connected things

   The biologist treated the two observations as a useful couplet.

Common collocations

• heroic couplet Adjective + noun

Borrowed from French couplet, a diminutive of couple, ultimately Latin copula, 'bond or connection.' In verse it came to name a pair of lines bound together by form or meaning.

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