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Definition of rhyming couplet in English: rhyming coupletnoun A rhyming pair of successive lines of verse, typically of the same length. two long poems in harsh rhyming couplets Example sentencesExamples - Those of you uninterested in wading through doe-eyed love songs based on lazy rhyming couplets and trite resolutions have already lost half a disc's worth of music.
- Beneath the effigy is an inscription written in rhyming couplets.
- The action that Hamlet mounts is extremely formal, with its prologue and its long speeches in rhyming couplets.
- It celebrates in elegant rhyming couplets his good taste and involvement in public works.
- Owing more to rhyming slang than rhyming couplets, the actor shows a return to form here.
- Its heaviness is also emphasised by the fact that the play is written in rhyming couplets, and most of the time the meter gives the impression that one is on a train.
- Warner's main work, Albion's England, is an account in rhyming couplets of the history of England from Noah to King James I.
- Shakespearian rhyming couplets intermingle with grungy jive.
- In the early seventeenth century, Thomas Deloney composed a "strange history" of "the rebellion of Watt Tyler and Jack Straw" in order to praise in rhyming couplets the bravery of the young King Richard II.
- He later wrote a withering review that took the form of a short play, with all dialogue rendered in perfect rhyming couplets.
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