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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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024

On Sept. 6, 2014, when The Times asked for verse from readers, Koch weighed in with a long poem about grammar, which included this couplet:

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Is it said that the comic poet Ogden Nash, noting the hiring practices of a certain founder of Universal Pictures, once wrote the couplet “Uncle Carl Laemmle/has a very big faemmle.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed—he shrieked.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Ahead of Lunar New Year this month, Chinese households typically decorate their doors with couplets - a set of auspicious writings heralding health and prosperity in the new year.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath