couplet
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But I think that couplet is really powerful and it did what we wanted it to do.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 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
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
Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed—he shrieked.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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