A rhyming pair of successive lines of verse, typically of the same length.
two long poems in harsh rhyming couplets
Example sentencesExamples
Those of you uninterested in wading through doe-eyed love songs based on lazy rhyming couplets and trite resolutions have already lost half a disc's worth of music.
Beneath the effigy is an inscription written in rhyming couplets.
The action that Hamlet mounts is extremely formal, with its prologue and its long speeches in rhyming couplets.
It celebrates in elegant rhyming couplets his good taste and involvement in public works.
Owing more to rhyming slang than rhyming couplets, the actor shows a return to form here.
Its heaviness is also emphasised by the fact that the play is written in rhyming couplets, and most of the time the meter gives the impression that one is on a train.
Warner's main work, Albion's England, is an account in rhyming couplets of the history of England from Noah to King James I.
Shakespearian rhyming couplets intermingle with grungy jive.
In the early seventeenth century, Thomas Deloney composed a "strange history" of "the rebellion of Watt Tyler and Jack Straw" in order to praise in rhyming couplets the bravery of the young King Richard II.
He later wrote a withering review that took the form of a short play, with all dialogue rendered in perfect rhyming couplets.