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her; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.

passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

rete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24. -- Discrete quantity, that which must be divided in…

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

r sense) which produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. Shak.

, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

se, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by Keats in "Isabella," by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas," etc.

Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

an instructor in horsemanship. -- Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest. -- Riding school, a school or place where the art of riding is taught.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

aracter, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.

f the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse.