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rhyming couplets

rhyming couplets is the plural of rhyming couplet.

Meaning of rhyming couplet

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

Questions about rhyming couplets

What is rhyming couplets the plural of?
Rhyming couplets is the plural of rhyming couplet.

Words near rhyming couplets in the dictionary

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

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