Couplet | Literary Term | English Literature | Major English | Plus Two Level
Couplet
is a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with
rhyming ends. It is a successive pair of lines in a poem. The pair of lines
that comprise a couplet generally rhyme with each other and contain
the same meter. The
most popular of the couplets is the heroic couplet. The heroic couplet consists
of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter usually having a pause in the middle
of each line. One of William Shakespeare’s trademarks was to end a sonnet
with a couplet, as in the poem 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day':
So
long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So
long as lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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