Couplets

According to Dr Muckta Karmarkar, Mirza Ghalib is the most quoted poet, followed by couplets in Bengali, Punjabi and Sanskrit.

In blank verse, rhymed couplets and ballad metre, Sullivan puts her formal skills to bitterly effective use, finding a glib jingle in the Grenfell inquiry’s bureaucratese (“this report is avowedly provisional.

And as he was imagining his beautiful scenario, some couplets presented themselves to him.

His painting, a panel of four couplets, now graces the walls of Thriukkural Koodam, an exhibition hall in Chennai.

It contains 13 ‎hundred couplets and about 500 proverbs.

It’s visceral, image-laden poetry that’s even more sleek and streamlined than the man’s earliest wordplay, when he was spinning out witty couplets “What’s so great about the Barrier Reef?

I mean, it’s really just lazy couplets.

A very important tradition that goes on during the Chinese spring festival, the ISC put red couplets on the windows and doors that signify “good fortune” and “happiness”.

But the baleful ache in Warren Zevon's voice as he reaches for the high note brings you back, just in time for one of the great self-pity couplets of all time.

Perry’s clever couplets easily stick in your brain, as does his message, which preaches the gospel of finding what’s true in the world.

All 17th-century French plays in verse alternate single and double alexandrine couplets.

Beginning with the earlier recorded forms: the Classic of Poetry tends toward couplets of four-character lines, grouped in rhymed quatrains; and, the Chuci follows this to some extent, but moves toward variations in line length.

Couplets are read from top to bottom where the first pline starts from the right.

Couplets displayed as part of the Chinese New Year festival, on the first morning of the New Year, are called chunlian.

Couplets usually comprise two lines that rhyme and have the same metre.

Elegiac verses appear, for example, in Petronius ' Satyricon, and Martial 's Epigrams uses it for many witty stand-alone couplets and for longer pieces.

However, speed metal is usually faster and more aggressive than traditional heavy metal, also showing more inclination to virtuoso soloing and featuring short instrumental passages between couplets.

In addition to setting pace for the line, the caesura also grouped each line into two couplets.

In classic form, the ghazal has from five to fifteen rhyming couplets that share a refrain at the end of the second line.

In his first school year, Mao befriended an older student, Xiao Zisheng ; together they went on a walking tour of Hunan, begging and writing literary couplets to obtain food.