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

As she read the rhyming couplet inscribed in a large clay jar made before the Civil War, the 84-year-old Northeast D.C. resident could feel pain and loneliness in the anguished voice of her enslaved ancestor.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023

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