couplet
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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
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
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