0 two lines of poetry next to each other, especially ones that rhyme (= have words with the same sounds) and have the same length and rhythm:
a rhyming couplet
1 a pair of lines in a poem, esp. when connected by rhythm, rhyme (= words that end with the same sound), or meaning
This is particularly suggested by the succession of evaporite couplets, which are attributed to pulsating episodes of water table change.
The exposition is a self-contained refrain and couplet design, in the manner of those discussed above.
Only the third section of this long work was written in octosyllabic couplets, and this section is known to have been written after 1170.
However, the picture accompanying the couplet shows a scholar looking into the distant mountains in the moonlight.
The versification is mixed, but several long speeches, as well as much of the dialogue, is in octosyllabic couplets.
It reminded one of that snide definition of a sonnet as having three quatrains and a couplet but no poetry.
The lyrics, in seven- and ten-syllable couplets, are simply 'recited' (yin).
The poetic stanzas change from quatrains to tercets to couplets, quickening the pace of the dialogue.