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couplet

noun as in pair

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verse

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A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here."

From BBC

Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."

From BBC

So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.

From Salon

There are, in fact, some rather disturbing rhymed couplets, if you will.

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“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.

From Los Angeles Times

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