Couplet Poem
Defined
Every two lines rhyme
Every two lines have the same meter
Structure:
Any amount of lines (10 lines for our purposes)
Every two lines is considered a couplet
o A couplet is two consecutive lines that rhyme
 Types of rhyme
 End rhymes
 The words at the end of each line rhyme with each other
 Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village, though;
 Internal rhymes
 The word at the end of a line rhymes with a word in the
middle of a line
 I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers
 Half rhymes
 When parts of the two words sound alike but they aren’t
exact
 What did the paper say to the pen?
“I feel quite all ‘write,’ my friend.”
Every two lines have the same meter
o Meter is the rhythm in a poem
 So every two lines have the same syllable count
Example:
Dreams may come and dreams may go
Sometimes people never know.
They can be color or black and white
With no one knowing which one is right.
Every night one does dream
Sometimes they make us scream.
Other times our dreams reveal
What inside we really feel.
So the next time you are deep asleep
You may see what secret dreams you keep.