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The countryish “Run Away” opens with the couplet “In the time of confession / In the hour of the storm,” as Beck, sounding dejected and lost, begs not to be left alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

“Iambic pentameter, and a rhyming couplet, too,” she said, pleased with her effort.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

The chapters are arranged like the bayts, or couplets, of a ghazal, and they describe a succession of infatuations, some romantic and some purely poetic, as in the odes to the 14th-century Persian lyricist Hafez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“Not that again. Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off” I shuddered.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan