Couplets

This secular, computerized age might generate more couplets from the software that anagrammatizes individual words to no end: has anyone tried making modern poems from such things? ❋ Unknown (2007)

In a twist that Alicia will appreciate, the plaintiff apparently argued that a poem in rhyming couplets is not a poem. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Save the youth who in couplets and rhymes shall cry, ❋ Unknown (2006)

This poem in 550 lines of running pentameter couplets is indeed a sustained polemic against Byronic scepticism on temporal and theological grounds, one spliced with ad hominem attacks yet also graced with sisterly concern for this poet who spurns "a brighter state" for a "quicksand" earth. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The Apadāna version in ninety-two verse-couplets is then quoted. ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)

Most of the proverbs are in couplets or triplets, or some modifications of them, the members of which correspond in structure and length, as if arranged to be compared one with another. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Edward Hirsch has a wonderful basketball poem I’ve taught, whose title is escaping me, in couplets, whose final image is the ball swishing through the net. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Though the remainder of the poem is written entirely in couplets, the first four lines of "Verses" form an envelope quatrain (like the first four lines of every sonnet by ❋ Unknown (2000)

Puck is fond of trochaic tetrameter in couplets, that is, four-beat verse starling off on a stressed syllable: ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

Meanwhile it is by a sarcastic verse in the Vita written by himself in Latin couplets, that the old man himself seems to account for a certain courtesy bestowed upon him after his return (Regia conanti calamo defendere iura. ❋ Unknown (1650)

We notice, also, that it is rhymed in couplets, that is, every two lines are rhymed together. ❋ Sherwin Cody (N/A)

On the other hand, the likelihood of recalling couplets in which indirect associations did occur is 82 per cent. after one day, and there is a diminution of only 18 per cent. during the next fifteen days. ❋ Various (1889)

We see from the table that the likelihood of recalling couplets in which indirect associations did not occur in learning is 63 per cent. after one day, and that there is a diminution of 44 per cent. in the next fifteen days. ❋ Various (1889)

The figures in the per cent. row give the percentage of correctly recalled couplets left after discarding both from the number recalled and from the total number of couplets given those in which indirect associations occurred. ❋ Various (1889)

We can then ascertain in each the proportion of correctly recalled couplets after one, two, nine and sixteen days 'interval, and thus see the importance of indirect associations as a factor in recall. ❋ Various (1889)

The figures in brackets indicate the number of correctly recalled couplets per series in which indirect associations occurred. ❋ Various (1889)

On the other hand, those correctly recalled couplets in which indirect associations _did_ occur are not for our purposes pure material, for they contain not only the object-image factor but the indirect association factor also. ❋ Various (1889)

A translation in today's Tamil would have been useful, but the couplets are a nice touch nonetheless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way). ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)