couplet
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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
“And perhaps the sun blows kisses to the moon as it departs/they work two separate shifts with one beating heart” is a representative couplet from Hal’s verse.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
By 2012's All Too Well, she was capable of writing this devastating couplet: "You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest."
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022
And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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