*two successive lines of verse that form a complete thought/form a separate stanza
*English couplets tend to be decasyllabic (ten syllables)
*couplets often appear at the conclusion of English sonnets
*HEROIC COUPLET: two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
*CLOSED COUPLET: meaning and grammatical structure are complete within two lines
definition borrowed from encarta.msn.com
No comments:
Post a Comment