A rhyming couplet with end-stopped lines that is logically or grammatically complete, as "Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun".
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The English ghazal is a poem consisting of unrhymed closed couplets written in any meter.
The Shakespearean Sonnet consists of 14-lines that are divided into three four-line sections (each called a quatrain), and a concluding section of just two lines: a rhyming or closed couplet.
Each of the first two couplets in the Dryden passage contains a complete unit of thought; such couplets are called closed couplets.
The tone ranges from the lyrical to the dissonant, the form from closed couplet to strong, clean free verse.
Three common types of couplets are: a closed couplet, an open couplet, and a heroic couplet.
The couplets here are mainly closed couplets, in that, for the most part, each couplet ends with a pause and is a unit of sense in itself.
Definition of closed couplet in US English:
closed couplet
noun
A rhyming couplet with end-stopped lines that is logically or grammatically complete, as "Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun".
Example sentencesExamples
The tone ranges from the lyrical to the dissonant, the form from closed couplet to strong, clean free verse.
Three common types of couplets are: a closed couplet, an open couplet, and a heroic couplet.
The Shakespearean Sonnet consists of 14-lines that are divided into three four-line sections (each called a quatrain), and a concluding section of just two lines: a rhyming or closed couplet.
Each of the first two couplets in the Dryden passage contains a complete unit of thought; such couplets are called closed couplets.
The English ghazal is a poem consisting of unrhymed closed couplets written in any meter.
The couplets here are mainly closed couplets, in that, for the most part, each couplet ends with a pause and is a unit of sense in itself.