James Fenton

This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.

British Poet

Tom Morello

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

American Musician

Margo Jefferson

My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.

American Critic

Adam Schlesinger

With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.

Javed Akhtar

By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old.

Indian Activist

David Ives

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

American Playwright

Rosanne Cash

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Frank Black

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Sherman Alexie

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

American Writer

Brook Lopez

Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet.

American Basketball Player

Couplets often mark the end of a sonnet, serving as a punchy conclusion to the poem.

Poetic Structure

English learners might find rhyming couplets easier to remember due to their rhythmic and rhyming pattern.

Memorable Rhymes

A couplet can create a dramatic pause, especially when recited, emphasizing the message.

Expressive Pauses

Couplets can imply a strong connection or a pairing, often used metaphorically beyond physical objects.

Matched Pairs

A couplet can express two ideas that complement or complete each other.

Complementary Concepts

In music, a couplet combines two notes to create a specific rhythm or beat, reflecting the pairing idea from poetry.

Musical Rhythm

In musical notation, a couplet may be specifically referred to as a 'duplet', representing two notes in the time of three.

Technical Specificity

 and discrete I seek I am back writings to retweet and indeed it searches Twitter looking for lines of text in Shakespeare's preferred meter and retweeting couplet of them to great effect now we're in dust the breathless

The weird, wonderful,...

 that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole,

Sting: How I started...

 you get a primordial soup and that creates life and life starts to expand and expand and expand until it goes couplet now the really strange thing is