couplet
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A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here."
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024
“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
ChatGPT failed the assignment, writing a couplet consisting of seven characters.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023
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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