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rhyming couplet

rhyming couplet noun: two successive rhyming lines of verse, usually of the same length.

Noun

rhyming couplet (plural rhyming couplets)

  1. Two successive rhyming lines of verse, usually of the same length.
    • On one level, the joy of the film is its rhyming couplet commentary, written by the late Paul le Saux and read alternately by Howard Marion Crawford and Alan Wheatley, which adds rhythmic pace to the already fast-paced editing.2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 43

Forms of rhyming couplet

pluralrhyming couplets

Questions about rhyming couplet

What does rhyming couplet mean?
Rhyming couplet means two successive rhyming lines of verse, usually of the same length.
What part of speech is rhyming couplet?
Rhyming couplet is a noun.
What is the plural of rhyming couplet?
The plural of rhyming couplet is rhyming couplets.

Words near rhyming couplet in the dictionary

  1. rhymic
  2. rhymical
  3. rhymier
  4. rhymiest
  5. rhyming
  6. rhyming couplet
  7. rhyming couplets
  8. rhyming dictionaries
  9. rhyming dictionary
  10. rhyming off
  11. rhyming out

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