couplet

Shockingly, this last couplet made it into the 1953 film version; someone was napping over at MGM.

Did they ever consider selecting the first line of this couplet for the title of their edition?

China's use of these beasts always reminds me of a couplet I read years ago in a newspaper column.

The commonest stanza is a quatrain consisting of four heptasyllabic lines with the rhyme at the end of the couplet.

In a couplet of passionate melancholy she asked, where are the roses of yesterday?

John Briggs never took a dare, and at noon, when Mr. Cross was at home at dinner, he wrote flamingly the descriptive couplet.

That was the name they had given him; he could hear the night crowds shouting it in a silly couplet: Il nous faut-oBeau Cocono-o!

The reading of each couplet by the minister before it was sung seemed to him a sort of recitative.