couplet

«couplet» in Mova's school dictionary: a pair of lines of poetry that go together, usually… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a couplet, couplets)

meaning for a pupil

1) A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that go together, usually rhyming and with the same rhythm. tree →

2) (rare) A couplet can mean a pair of anything. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils write and spot couplets in poems and songs. A rhyming couplet often ends a poem or a sonnet with a strong, neat point. It tells the reader where two lines form one small unit. Phrases: «rhyming couplet», «a closing couplet», «heroic couplet» (lines of ten syllables).

examples

• «Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are» is a couplet. tree →
• Write a rhyming couplet about your pet. tree →
• The poem is made of six couplets. tree →
• A sonnet by Shakespeare ends with a couplet. tree →
• The last couplet made everyone laugh. tree →
• Can you find the couplet that does not rhyme? tree →
• My birthday card had a funny couplet inside. tree →

note

Countable: a couplet, couplets. A couplet = 2 lines; a tercet = 3; a quatrain = 4; a stanza or verse is a group of lines. Pronounced «CUP-let». Do not confuse with «couple» (two people or two things) — a couplet is about lines of poetry.

In the corpora

• "chūnlián" are red New Year couplets, poems on red paper put up by the door before New Year.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «couplet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.