Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter, often forming a complete thought or joke.
From Old French 'couplet,' a diminutive of 'couple' meaning 'pair,' derived from Latin 'copula' meaning 'bond' or 'connection.' The meaning evolved to describe paired lines in verse.
Shakespeare and other great poets used couplets to end scenes with a punchy, memorable line—the rhyming couplet became poetry's mic drop moment!
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