Couplet
A couplet or distich is a poem or a stanza within a poem which contains two lines of matched verse in succession. They can be matched in length, in rhyme, or both. The shortest couplet that forms a poem is perhaps "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" by Strickland Gillilan:
- Adam
- Had 'em.
Many couplet poems also have a title, which is key to the understanding of the poem as a whole. The two lines of a couplet typically complement or contradict each other in some way for dramatic effect, such as this poem called "Attempt"
- At least try
- To try
A couplet is also a pair of rhyming lines within a longer stanza.
The silence which generally
grow contemplative, stand a few paces back from the pictures on
by the subject whose most recondite meaning then flashes on the
side in such an hour.html">hour of poetic dreaming can hardly understand its
material skill employed by art to produce illusion entirely
seem to speak and walk; the shade is shadow, the light is day;
stuffs have a changing sheen. Imagination helps the realism of
hour illusion reigns despotically; perhaps it wakes at nightfall!
dreams? Illusion then unfolds its wings, it bears the soul aloft
where the artist forgets the real world, yesterday and the
the evil alike.
At this magic hour a young painter, a man of talent, who saw in
helped him to work at a large high painting, now nearly finished.
current of his thoughts, he then lost himself in one of those
and comfort it. His reverie had no doubt lasted a long time.
whether he made some ill-judged movement, believing himself to be
the cause of his accident--he fell, his head.html">head struck a footstool,
of which he knew not the length.
A sweet voice roused him from the stunned condition into which he
made him close them again immediately; but through the mist that
two young, two timid hands on which his head was resting. He soon
Argand lamp he could make out the most charming girl's face.
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