Synonyms for couplet
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuhp-lit |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌp lɪt |
Définition of couplet
Origin :- 1570s, in poetry, from French couplet (mid-14c.), a diminutive of couple (see couple (n.)). In music, from 1876.
- noun pair
- When he came to the couplet I have given you, what do you think he sang?
- Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
- It was, however, to the regularity of Pope's couplet that most translators aspired.
- Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
- Revolts against the couplet, then, were few and generally unsuccessful.
- Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
- The couplet he immediately repudiates as an enemy to fidelity.
- Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
- The antics Palmer cut while delivering this couplet were truly amusing.
- Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
- When he took Ismail in 1790 he sent this couplet to Empress Catherine.
- Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) » by Augustus de Morgan
- Stay, stay, I have just recollected the beginning of the second couplet.
- Extract from : « Ten Years Later » by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
- In Marlowe's copy the couplet must have been very different.
- Extract from : « The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Christopher Marlowe
- The couplet is so great that, where thou art, —Thou being a poem—it is past my art.
- Extract from : « Silverpoints » by John Gray
- Couplet tried to explain that the time for taking it had expired on August 26.
- Extract from : « France and the Republic » by William Henry Hurlbert
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