Associations to the word «Couplet»

Wiktionary

COUPLET, noun. (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
COUPLET, noun. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

Dictionary definition

COUPLET, noun. Two items of the same kind.
COUPLET, noun. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats