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cou·plet
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closed couplet
a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line. -
open couplet
a couplet that concludes with a run-on line. -
distich
a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet. -
rondel
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end. -
archilochian
denoting or relating to the 7th century bc Greek poet Archilochus or his verse, esp the iambic trimeters or trochaic tetrameters used by him -
cabaletta
a short aria with a repetitive rhythm