A pair of rhymed lines followed by another pair of rhymed lines
A pair of rhymed lines that are roughly the same length
The heroic couplet consists of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter that is a rhetorical unit; that is, it expresses a whole thought. Shakespeare's sonnets end with heroic couplets. Here is some Shakespeare:
End of Sonnet XIV
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
End of Sonnet XVIII
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
End of Sonnet LXXXVIII
Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
Here are two entire poems by Robert Frost, each of which is one heroic couplet:
From Iron
Nature within her inmost self divides
To trouble men with having to take sides.
[Forgive, O Lord..]
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
William Butler Yeats: The Statues, (1939) This couplet ends the poem:
Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace
The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.
Also Yeats: Vacillation (1933) ending verse three:
No man has ever lived that had enough
Of children's gratitude or woman's love.
Note:
Rhyme is not as common an element in serious poetry as it was in the past; if you enjoy writing poetry, read some good current poets and see if you can write rhythmically and expressively without falling into the trap of mangling lines to force a rhyme.
A pair of rhymes lines not separated by another
A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter.
Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are written in rhyming couplets. John Dryden in the 17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.
Because the rhyme comes so quickly in rhyming couplets, it tends to call attention to itself. Good rhyming couplets tend to "snap" as both the rhyme and the idea come to a quick close in two lines. Here are some examples of rhyming couplets where the sense as well as the sound "rhymes":
"True wit is nature to advantage dressed / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
--Alexander Pope
"Whether or not we find what we are seeking / is idle, biologically speaking."
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay (at the end of a sonnet)
On the other hand, because rhyming couplets have such a predictable rhyme scheme, they can feel artificial and plodding. Here is a Pope parody of the predictable rhymes of his era:
"Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze," / In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;" / If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," / The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."
Here are a few examples of couplets:
*The sun is shining brightly.
The rain is sprinkling lightly.
*The river bands were high.
Now the river banks are dry.
*My lollipop is sweet
that you just can't beat
As a couplet is a two line verse that rhymes and has a rhythm to it, perhaps to convey something, an example could be:
If you take four from eleven,
Then you should then be left with seven.
Multiple couplets can be joined together to make a verse.
a pair of rhymed lines not separated by another line
His wife ran away and i know that hell miss her.
The women was frightened that one day he'd kiss her.
He preached a lot and had a dream
Of everybody eating ice cream.
WELL IT LIKE
god means to me love faith and compassion,
i don't know why people have to follow the fashion,
I don't know that is what I asked and this showed up
Pizza, when made to satisfy, Eating it you can't deny.
...a rhyming couplet. If the first syllable of each line is stressed, it's a 'heroic' rhyming couplet.
The last couplet.
a rhyming couplet that contrasts or has an opposite.
the cat went to the house to get the mouse :)
Sure! Here is an example of a couplet written by Ogden Nash: "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree
i found a starfish in the bay, when i was fishing yesterday starfish, starfish in the ocean moving along in slow motion
One example of a couplet in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is: "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" This couplet highlights the melancholy tone of the poem and the alliteration adds to the overall musicality of the verse.
Pizza, when made to satisfy, Eating it you can't deny.
I don't know that is what I asked and this showed up
"The time is now, let's seize the day, Together we'll find our own way."
...a rhyming couplet. If the first syllable of each line is stressed, it's a 'heroic' rhyming couplet.
The last couplet.
a sentence with couplet in it
An iamb has the rhythm "de-dum".A couplet is a couple of lines that rhyme.As an example of an iambic quadrametric couplet ("de-dum" four times in each line) - from Ogden Nash... Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed.He watched the ads and not the road.