rhyming couplet
Two matching lines
A rhyming couplet is a pair of consecutive lines in poetry that end with words that rhyme: The time has come, the Walrus said, / To talk of many things.
Couplets often deliver a punchy conclusion or memorable summary, as in the final lines of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Two successive verse lines
- pairTwo matching things
- doubletFitted Renaissance jacket
- two-lineConsisting of paired lines
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
verse · heroic couplet · enjambment · turn · closure · epigram · tag line · punchline
Rhymed pentameter pair
- ShakespeareanOf the Stratford playwright
- ChaucerianPertaining to fourteenth-century English poet
- PopeCatholic Church's supreme leader
- epigramPithy, memorable saying
Verse rhythm type
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- tetrameterFour-foot poetic line
- hexameterSix-foot poetic line
- trimeterThree metrical feet
syllable · stress · scansion · foot · prosody · rhythm · cadence · beat
Harmonious sound combination
- assonanceVowel sound repetition
- chimeMelodic bell sound
- echoReflected sound wave
- soundAudible wave phenomenon
match · correspondence · jingle · singsong · doggrel · clinch
Sense of emotional resolution
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- summaryCondensed account of essentials
- punchlineHumor's final delivery
- moralConcerning right conduct
epigram · wit · antithesis · parallelism · balance · symmetry · emphasis · memorability
couplet
Two successive verse lines
stanza · verse · heroic couplet · enjambment · turn · closure · epigram · tag line · punchline · resolution
heroic couplet
Rhymed pentameter pair
- ShakespeareanOf the Stratford playwright
- ChaucerianPertaining to fourteenth-century English poet
- PopeCatholic Church's supreme leader
epigram · elegy · satire · epitaph · proverb · aphorism · maxim · wit
iambic
Verse rhythm type
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- tetrameterFour-foot poetic line
- hexameterSix-foot poetic line
trimeter · syllable · stress · scansion · foot · prosody · rhythm · cadence · beat · measured
consonance
Harmonious sound combination
sound · match · correspondence · jingle · singsong · doggrel · clinch
closure
Sense of emotional resolution
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- summaryCondensed account of essentials
- punchlineHumor's final delivery
moral · epigram · wit · antithesis · parallelism · balance · symmetry · emphasis · memorability · recitation
- poetry typeshaiku, sonnet, limerick, ballad, ode
- RhymeABBA, monorhyme, couplet, couplets
- sonnetssonnet, Shakespearean sonnets, Petrarchan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, English sonnet
- coupletsheroic couplet
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, William Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe
rhyming coupletblank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
free verse · prose · prose poetry · sprung rhythm · stream of consciousness
rhyming coupletfree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
prose · ottava rima · sestina · villanelle · stream of consciousness
rhyme, rhymed, rhymes, rhymer, rhymers, rhyming, couple, coupled, couples