couplet
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The countryish “Run Away” opens with the couplet “In the time of confession / In the hour of the storm,” as Beck, sounding dejected and lost, begs not to be left alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
But “Lip Service” by Costello and the Attractions has the all-time classic couplet: “When did you become so choosy? Don’t act like you’re above me, just look at your shoes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
“Iambic pentameter, and a rhyming couplet, too,” she said, pleased with her effort.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
The chapters are arranged like the bayts, or couplets, of a ghazal, and they describe a succession of infatuations, some romantic and some purely poetic, as in the odes to the 14th-century Persian lyricist Hafez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“Not that again. Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off” I shuddered.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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