In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In...
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Look up couplet, couplets, or distich in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A couplet is a pair of lines in verse. Couplet may also refer to: Couplets (cabaret)...
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A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic...
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In poetics, closed couplets are two line units of verse that do not extend their sense beyond the line's end. Furthermore, the lines are usually rhymed...
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The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly...
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Philippe Couplet, SJ (1623–1693), known in China as Bai Yingli, was a Flemish Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire. He worked with his fellow missionaries...
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Duilian (poetry) (redirect from Chinese couplet)
hanging scrolls in an interior. Although often called Chinese couplet or antithetical couplet, they can better be described as a written form of counterpoint...
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Couplets (German: Couplets, Polish: kuplety, Spanish: cuplés) were wittily ambiguous, political, or satirical songs in an number of European countries...
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"Couplet" is the 14th episode of the third season of the American television series Angel. At her apartment, Cordelia changes into something comfortable...
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Bloodline theory (redirect from Bloodline couplet)
standing was their family's class position. It was expressed by the bloodline couplet, "from a revolutionary father a hero, from a reactionary father a bastard...
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