Couplet: Two Lines of Verse
By: Kevin Bacon, Daniel Tibbs, Emmanuel Estrada
1/17/13 Period 3
What is a Couplet?
• Couplet is a noun, and it’s two lines of verse
usually in the same meter and joined by a
rhyme which forms a unit
• Couplets are usually used in Sonnets, the
ending of them to be exact
• They are also used in Heroic Couplets & in
Poetic Epigrams
Examples of Famous Couplets
• Whether or not we find what we are seeking
• is idle, biologically speaking.
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (at the end of a
sonnet)
• So long as men can breathe or eyes can
see, So long lives this, and this gives life to
thee.
• –William Shakespeare
Our Couplet
• As long as the internet stays on all day,
Then games on the computer I shall play
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