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# couplet

noun (a couplet, couplets)

«couplet» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that go together, usually rhyming and with the same rhythm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#m1)
2. (rare) A couplet can mean a pair of anything. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons pupils write and spot couplets in poems and songs. A rhyming couplet often ends a poem or a sonnet with a strong, neat point. It tells the reader where two lines form one small unit. Phrases: «rhyming couplet», «a closing couplet», «heroic couplet» (lines of ten syllables).

### Examples

- «Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are» is a couplet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x1)
- Write a rhyming couplet about your pet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x2)
- The poem is made of six couplets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x3)
- A sonnet by Shakespeare ends with a couplet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x4)
- The last couplet made everyone laugh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x5)
- Can you find the couplet that does not rhyme? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x6)
- My birthday card had a funny couplet inside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a couplet, couplets. A couplet = 2 lines; a tercet = 3; a quatrain = 4; a stanza or verse is a group of lines. Pronounced «CUP-let». Do not confuse with «couple» (two people or two things) — a couplet is about lines of poetry.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «couplet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/couplet/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«couplet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/couplet.html) on Mova free.