| 单词 | couplet |
| 例句 | And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The Ares camper tried to stab him and cuss him out in rhyming couplets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed—he shrieked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z To avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The sluggers turned as a unit to look toward the source of the noise, but Jesse hadn’t noticed and was still talking about memory, this time in rhyming couplets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It would be nice to say that I smiled and spoke of pleasant things in carefully metered rhyming couplets, like Prince Gallant from some faerie story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Not that again. Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off” I shuddered. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z So goes a famous Pashtun tapa, a couplet my grandmother taught me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Despite a fresh band offering dense rock, Young's a lazy lyricist throughout, as if he scribbled rhyming couplets in a rush, minus an editor or a rewrite. Neil Young's in protest mode on 'The Monsanto Years' 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Smith wanted to maintain as many Chaucerian elements as possible in her adaptation, she said, and the contours of the story remain the same, while the play’s dialogue is written in verse couplets. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Its couplets were so powerful that the words resonated beyond the usual fanboy channels, a kind of shot heard 'round the world. Kendrick Lamar is an essential voice for Los Angeles and beyond 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In Week 1329 we asked for Shakespeare “tailgaters” — rhyming couplets in which you pair a line from the Bard with one of your own. Style Invitational Week 1333: Check your (homo)phones 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z A Jack and the Beanstalk sketch featured a couplet along the lines of: "This place looks terribly lived in/Just like a night on the town with Thom Dibdin." Critical distance is a far-off fantasy 2010-12-01T12:46:00Z Every couplet of this excruciating, heartbreaking, hysterically funny event is a gem. Summer reads - best book to share: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff 2013-07-22T15:04:00Z He wrote in a smooth, carefully polished style, usually adhering to the traditional forms of English poetry, such as iambic pentameter, heroic couplets and rhyme. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Chapman and Pope did the poems into rhyming couplets. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In creating the piece, much of which is written in rhymed couplets, Mr. Gardley drew on history, literature, interviews with community members and his own vexed experiences with the police. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z I wondered if the poem could do without the second "Haigh" in the fourth couplet, and also, perhaps, "Its texture", in the penultimate line, which seemed like a signpost that might be removed. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z True to form, contains its fair share of clunkers, led by this dreadful couplet from the brash “Hunter”: “Duck Dynasty’s cool and all / But they got nothin’ on a female’s call.” On G I R L, Pharrell Is Eager to Please — and He Does 2014-03-03T17:33:24Z And even if Mr. Collingwood and Mr. Schlesinger can’t resist a couplet as neat as “Let’s get your phone reconnected/Let’s get this room disinfected,” it also sounds as if they care about the people. New Music: Fountains of Wayne, Now With Less Smirking 2011-08-01T23:00:34Z The current translation of the play by Ranjit Bolt is intriguing in that it's been done completely in rhyming couplets, which Hodge says is "like doing something in hip-hop." Douglas Hodge gets nosy in 'Cyrano' on Broadway 2012-10-10T12:37:08Z Gimlet-eyed couplets in that vein predominate in Sleaford Mods’ music, which homes in on the gloomy ennui of lower- and middle-class British life. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But the next line — “Will you help me write it?” — soon completes the sentiment, revealing Ms. Cosmos as a small-time romantic who knows how to craft a surprising couplet. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Take this couplet from Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden: Annihilating all that's made To a green Thought in a green Shade. Translating poetry might be beyond Google ? but we'll have fun watching it try 2010-10-24T21:00:00Z They’re everyday guys who can turn everyday life into a clever series of couplets. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z Even if she might savour Webster's aphoristic couplets a little more, Charlotte Emmerson's Duchess offers exactly the right mix of defiance and death-wish, passion and pathos. The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z And his "b" rhyme gets a further rhyme, so each stanza, in effect, ends on a couplet. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z A rigorous poetic form that usually consists of a series of couplets laced together by a precise rhyme scheme, ghazals originated in Persia and spread to India and Pakistan around the 15th century. Indian singer stretches tradition — and then some 2013-04-18T21:57:06Z But Hollinghurst's translation, swapping Racine's rhyming alexandrine couplets for blank verse, avoids that by rendering the play in clear, simple language. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z The last couplet seems to be describing, rather obliquely, that moment when the plane has landed and must be slowed by a furious counter-thrust of energy. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z "Though the body still yearns for sensual pleasures, the soul wishes for death," runs one merciless couplet. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z Molière's verse plays are written entirely in Alexandrines: 12-syllable rhyming couplets. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z A fish-eye lens reminiscent of a Hype Williams video captures them spitting deeply regrettable couplets: “The idea of the ‘Net flew over Bill Gates’s head / Andreessen, Clark, and Barksdale had the browser making bread.” “Valley of the Boom,” Reviewed: A Rah-Rah Reënactment of the Dot-Com Cataclysm 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z So happy, his most exuberant rhymes always seem to fall on the wrong beat, and by heaving his curvy Tennessee drawl into such asymmetrical couplets, he sounds like he’s pounding round pegs into square holes. Review | Playboi Carti and BlocBoy JB make great rap music. Will you make time to listen? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Deployed in his sparkling heroic couplets, the arguments and summaries are alive with wit, verbal agility and good sense. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z Much of the script is in blank verse, with a heady surfeit of expanding metaphors, lyrical soliloquies and discreetly rhymed couplets. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Gervasoni unites 13 abstruse couplets with a single tone row. Review: Works by Stefano Gervasoni at Miller Theater 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z ‘A Sucker Emcee’ Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau set to a hip-hop beat, the writer-performer Craig Grant, who is known as muMs, offers his confessions rap couplets. Theater Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z I was reminded of a Persian couplet inscribed long ago on a pavilion in one of Srinagar’s majestic gardens: “If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.” A Family Ski Adventure in the Himalayas 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z One never quite forgets, try as one might, the delicately phrased couplets that open “Visiting Westminster Abbey”: Review | What’s the worst novel ever? It might be this 19th-century train wreck. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z So when disaster strikes they may feel obligated respond to enormity with rhyming couplets – or, like action star John Cena, a wish that the superhero he plays on TV were real. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In the original German the interlocking rhymes have the simple mnemonic power of devotional verses for the layman; each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet exhorting the reader to compassion. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The lines from 1599 and the world as it is today must have formed a kind of couplet in her mind. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z But that mood of calm is too little, too late after an evening so dominated by “Let’s canoodle, my strudel” and similarly wearying couplets. Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z Is it said that the comic poet Ogden Nash, noting the hiring practices of a certain founder of Universal Pictures, once wrote the couplet “Uncle Carl Laemmle/has a very big faemmle.” ‘Only in Theaters’ Review: A Family Business in Changing Times 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Feel free to send couplets for all 13 — as usual, you can send 25 entries in all — but make sure each couplet works on its own; you’ll have to publish your full set yourself. Style Invitational: Gorey bits from A to Z — give us edgy alphabet rhymes 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Nominated for: Best British female, album and single What they say: "Allen remains a child of the hip-hop era: A pop singer with a rapper's love of the well-turned couplet and well-aimed diss." 2010-02-16T08:37:00Z Instead of just stringing together unrelated couplets as many performers did, Johnson strived to create thematically coherent groups of images that developed narrative, character and mood. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z She showed some of her anxiety poems — humorous couplets about problematic men — to the lyricist of “How to Succeed.” Warming up to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”: What my mother taught me about the guy who wrote the “date-rape” Christmas song 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Parnell, in the tradition of Dryden and Pope, tidies the metre into heroic couplets. Poem of the week: Pervigilium Veneris 2011-03-21T11:04:18Z The Gambler", finishes with the couplet: "Three times wounded; three times gassed / Three times wrecked – I lost at last", while another fragment runs: "This was a Godlike soul before it was crazed / No matter. 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 2013-02-25T15:31:38Z Too much information here would spoil the songs, which are each stories in themselves, often saving up a shocking revelation for the final couplet. The one-man musical 'The Lion' leaps to the L.A. stage with songs of regret and hope 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Under layers of white makeup, the Berliner Ensemble performs the quatrains and couplets. Theater Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Some of his couplets are quite impressive: "You write my wrongs/I sing all your songs ..." New band of the day ? No 811: Diamond Rings 2010-06-18T16:16:00Z The original Cyrano, first performed in 1897, was an artful throwback to the poetic dramas of the 17th century, written in Alexandrine couplets and infused with lofty, archaic notions of love and honor. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z There are also plenty of swords and Shakespearean couplets. Double, double, toil and trouble: 'Macbeth' comes to screens 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The scene is set with the opening killer couplet: "There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder/ Well, I heard you mention my name/ Can't you talk any louder?" Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z As Shakespeare’s disposable characters become the stars of their own show, the puns, shtick, and rhyming couplets flow—alongside every conceivable bodily fluid, spewed from corpses and actors alike. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z It was also good news for fans of rhyming couplets. Oscars 2014: Inside the Rhyming “Let It Go” Acceptance Speech 2014-03-03T20:30:03Z The rhyming couplets and video-plays of Mary Reid Kelley, with their daft costumes and makeup, are as much performances as stories on film. How performance art took over 2012-07-03T17:30:01Z The other was “ironic and challenging” — and, in his view, true to the subversive, antislavery thinking behind Wheatley’s decorous neoclassical couplets. A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Only in the final couplet does the horses' galloping extend the line, persuading us to see them keeping pace with us, running alongside. White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z There's another line in Fireworks that compresses the truth of his familial situation into an even more economical couplet: "I want to witness love, I've never seen it close." Streets takeover: Charting Drake's progress 2011-02-07T12:37:43Z Read subsequently defended the rhyming couplets which had come under critical fire: "Rhyming couplets did not do Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan much harm." Play it again, Mike Read: DJ's Oscar Wilde musical given another spin 2012-02-08T15:39:02Z For Red Bull Theater, David Ives, a playwright who knows his way around a couplet, adapts an obscure 18th-century French farce about poetry-mad Parisians. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z And here I am at last answering the second question in your opening couplet, which is whether it changed the way I write? David Mitchell is over the genre wars: “Confining an entire genre as being unworthy of your attention is a bizarre act of self-harm” 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z In "Keeping Hope Alive," he triggers a world of emotions in a brief couplet: "Pride and pain/Cloud my brain." John Fullbright aims to connect, uplift with 'Songs' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z He wasn't always going to be king of this poetic form, whose rhyming-but-thematically-free couplet is the basis for so many songs in the subcontinent. Mehdi Hassan's songs live on as Pakistan and India unite in mourning 2012-06-14T12:47:46Z These couplets are somewhat end-stopped, and the syntax lacks richness and variety. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z Mr. Thomas sang the closing couplet — “This year in fear and shame,/Next year in virtue and in justice” — with ringing power. Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z That script, a series of rhymed couplets barnacled with topical quips, “was so impenetrably difficult,” she said. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z And “That’s Entertainment” has become a showbiz anthem, including the immortal couplet that reprises the plot of Hamlet in a dozen succinct words: “Where the ghost and the prince meet / And everyone ends in mincemeat.” Review: Musical Triplets: 'The Band Wagon' Times Three 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z That couplet may seem artlessly catchy, but its cadence must have taken immense patience to get just right. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Alsatian Darn” features the passing couplet “What to do when the things that I want don’t allow/For the handful of mouths that I’m trying to feed?” Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z To be block-headed and brilliantly funny in rhyming couplets requires both verbal and psychological acuity of a rare order. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The entire special, dialogue and narration, is told in rhyming couplets, in the style of "The Night Before Christmas," which is soothing one minute and irritating the next. TV review: 'How Murray Saved Christmas' skews older 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z And in song after scruffy song, nearly every couplet is a gem: “She laughs for a minute about the shape I’m in/Says, ‘You be the sinner honey, I’ll be the sin.’ ” Music Review: Spices of the ?60s in Lone Star Recipes 2010-12-10T23:35:00Z “And perhaps the sun blows kisses to the moon as it departs/they work two separate shifts with one beating heart” is a representative couplet from Hal’s verse. ‘A Chance Encounter’ Review: Bland Days In Taormina 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z One basic example: “Shabby Doll” had the cute couplet “There’s a girl in this dress/There’s always a girl in distress.” Elvis Costello returns to the Warner Theatre 38 years after a legendary performance 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Even more pointed is a beseeching couplet from the album’s title track: “Picket lines and picket signs / Don’t punish me with brutality.” John Legend ponders 'What's Going On' at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This week: Write a mini-“rap battle” between any two characters, real or fictional, as in the ERB example above, which quotes two couplets from a 2½-minute video. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The section of the theatre in which I was sitting was accessed by entering at stage right, climbing up to a square foot or two of stage, then heading down a small couplet of steps. Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The couplets are difficult to translate, particularly the more philosophical musings. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z But as I sat there eating my bacon and eggs, this naive couplet brought the realization home: You really can’t go to northern Cyprus without being aware of its politics. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Change “poets” to “painters” and you might readily apply to him one of Wordsworth’s most famous couplets: “We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.” Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly In “Keeping Hope Alive,” he triggers a world of emotions in a brief couplet: “Pride and pain/Cloud my brain.” John Fullbright's 'Songs' album follows long-shot Grammy nod 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The first half of the couplet applied more to Suckers, which played a staunchly idiosyncratic opening set. Music Review: Local Natives and Suckers Perform at the Bowery Ballroom 2010-05-09T21:50:00Z The long, wordy text still has the feel of game-play, with Kallman writing the bulk but Auden scoring points for some sharp, abrasive couplets. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z All those literate indie couplets, splenetic punk insults and hip-hop braggadocio, on display right where everyone could hear them. Readers recommend: Resurrection songs 2010-04-01T23:01:00Z But: what line followed it, who spoke it, and what did the couplet mean? Friday quiz: Bardolatry 2010-04-30T12:25:00Z Both of these are written in couplets and divided into short, flexible sections and scenes, moving quickly back and forth in time, mirroring the swerves and shifts of memory. Poetry in brief 2011-03-26T00:05:32Z At this show, the local rapper will celebrate “Back to the Woods,” her second album of clever couplets and confrontational gusto. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It's a strange, haunting couplet, with its own liquescent verbal music: "The bailey beareth the bell away; /The lily, the rose, the rose I lay." Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z Full of forced rhymes and clunky couplets, and all the better for it, Cheryl Tweedy captures the mundane depression of being forced reflect on a life stuck in the doldrums. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-30T10:35:02Z Eliot in the press of her sentences, the crisp progress of her rhyming couplets. In ‘Three Poems,’ Hannah Sullivan Writes Beautifully and Covers a Lot of Ground 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The crisply compressed later project zips along as Maurice Chevalier and company wittily express their worldliness and worries in couplets and song. A Director?s Toughest Competition 2011-03-11T05:40:21Z Toward the end, we get one more, lame couplet by the rapper: The Rap on Carson 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z “The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom,” published in the North, features ringing couplets decrying the evils of bondage. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z As soon as you put speech in rhyming couplets, there’s a ‘take.’ Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z The six movements are based on a collection of texts, ranging from couplets to extended passages, taken from both the Old and New Testaments with extracts of psalms predominating, all in modern English translations. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z Throughout, Darnielle switches perspectives, draws miniatures in rhymed couplets and moves through lines with gleeful precision. Mountain Goats' 'Beat the Champ' richly imagines wrestlers' world 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z “Silicone chest and collagen lips” — not to pat myself on the back, but that’s a really tricky couplet to fit into a lyric! Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!: 'This Is How I Felt When I Was 19' 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z There are other droll effects: synchronised dance routines for wheelchairs; characters jumping through floorboards on to the stage; a few perky rhyming couplets and some neck-twistings which are accompanied by sickeningly loud clicks. Hamlet; A Number; Enlightenment; Faust 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Waters' opening couplet goes "We don't need your adulation, we don't need your starry gaze," instead of "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control" from the final version. Pink Floyd in race against time to reissue albums 2011-05-12T03:31:04Z New Speedway Boogie is Robert Hunter's response to the day, written in elliptical, shamanic couplets to a tight blues rock backing. Readers recommend songs about concerts: the results 2010-05-27T22:30:00Z When it came to conjuring the era through the lyrics, the urbane, “playfully bawdy” couplets of Cole Porter were a touchstone for Shaiman and Wittman. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z It also means that he is required to perform not one, but two dances of assignation with various would-be lovers, with whom he banters in excruciating rhymed couplets. Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “You know, I’ve always thought that was one of his best couplets.” Robert Christgau: How One Man Survived Writing 13,000 Album Reviews 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z She’d only heard half of the couplet about her, apparently, but she still seemed to be caught in a lie. The Book on Taylor Swift 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It is a unique novel – taking the form of hundreds of pages of footnotes to a 999-line epic poem in rhyming couplets. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z It’s a thoughtful drama and a hilarious farce, a play popping with rhymed couplets and earthy f-bombs. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Honestly, some of us would be happy just to hear another “pottery”/“lottery” rhyming couplet. At last, an Oscar for popular film. Because who needs another The Shape Of Water? | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s dizzying — nearly 22,000 lines of octosyllabic Old French couplets. She Tackled Aristotle in an Opera. Next Up: Medieval French Couplets. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z And the couplets’ thrilling turns never fail to provide a jolt of epiphanic joy. Poems to Uplift and Inspire Young Adults 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Then we have a strange 12-line poem, whose "absent couplet" seems to invoke the absent couple, and symbolise the end of the affair. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z The poem is neatly arranged in 14-syllable couplets, and has some graceful touches. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z And how painful a couplet is "And I see you lying there/Like a Li-lo losing air"? This week's new singles 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z It segues easily into “Tom,” an earthy soul ballad featuring graceful embellishment by the blues guitarist Doyle Bramhall II, along with a desolate opening couplet: “There’s nothing between us/Except the feeling of nothing.” New Albums by Miranda Lambert, Meshell Ndegeocello and Taylor McFerrin 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z When I was young, she would recite to me the couplet “A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.” Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Regnard rose to fame after the death of Moliere, who cast a powerful influence over him -- and wrote in rhyming couplets, which Ives has recreated in English. Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Consider the first couplet of “Streetlights,” another of the better songs: “Hold tight for heartbreak/Buckle up for loneliness.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z It's not a couplet you'll find in many Valentine's cards, but it gets me every time. My favourite album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse 2011-08-22T10:54:28Z But not nearly so much as she was with the song’s next couplet: “Doing the dishes at the window, and the radio’s playing ‘Superstar.’” Brit singer Rumer dazzles, demurs at Hollywood Forever's Masonic Lodge 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Pharrell tacitly acknowledges the disconnect in his opening couplet: "It might seem crazy what I'm about to say / Sunshine she's here, you can take a break." Grammy Awards: Beyoncé, Coldplay and Sam Smith should get nods 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z For every couplet about facing eviction as a youth while his mother battled alcoholism, there are dozens about his rapid come-up and fractured relationships with women. Review | Resonating with his crowd, Baby Keem seems ready to reach for something more 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z There was enough music to accommodate 44 couplets.” R.I.P, the list pop song: Missing the lost art of rock ‘n’ roll lyrical overload 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z That’s a couplet at war with itself, but also one strangely in harmony. New Music From Real Estate, My Brightest Diamond, Harold O?Neal 2011-10-17T22:37:44Z Chance shouted into the microphone, rapping his incandescent verse from “Ultralight Beam,” which includes the couplet “I made ‘Sunday Candy,’ I’m never going to hell / I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail.” Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Yes, there’s an occasional rhyming couplet, but most of the poetry in Shakespeare doesn’t sound anything like a nursery rhyme. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z There is a clip of the classic couplet: Review: ‘Frontline’ Traces the Footsteps of Covid-19 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In this impish movement, after a needling, jagged theme, the music keeps spinning off into bursts of passagework in which brisk strands of 16th notes are grouped in slurred two-note couplets. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z One included an eagle who spoke in Chaucerian rhyming couplets, another was in the style of Raymond Chandler. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z “It would take four, five hours to get one couplet to work,” he said. Mark Ronson’s Fourth Solo Album, ‘Uptown Special,’ Is a Star Collaboration 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The rhymes sound just as strong with couplets like, "Some guys think they can't be winners./First prize often goes to rank beginners." “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z At the time, Jack Gould of The New York Times called her “an actress of striking and mellow beauty who also was at home with the verse and couplets of Shakespeare.” Marsha Hunt, Actress Turned Activist, Is Dead at 104 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z In independent but thematically linked couplets, the poet walks the reader through prison’s aftermath, holding Virgil’s lamp to the various circles of carceral hell. A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It was written entirely in rhyming couplets, set in the 1600s, and for large chunks of the play my character doesn't say a lot. David Hyde Pierce starring in psychological thriller 2011-05-30T01:43:37Z Presented by Taproot Theatre, in Richard Wilbur's sparkling translation of the French playwright's elegantly barbed couplets, "Tartuffe" may be set in the faraway era of Louis XIV. Taproot's 'Tartuffe' has 17th-century setting but a story that resonates today 2012-02-16T21:40:06Z The song “My Body,” on the same album, features the couplet “I wear my body like a rotted peach—you can have it if you can handle the stink.” Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z He’s a punch-line rapper who rarely thinks about his lines beyond the rhyming couplet. Critic?s Notebook: Lil Wayne?s ?Tha Carter IV? - Review 2011-08-30T22:28:26Z His original couplets are savvy and accessible, too; “Me, Myself & I,” a single with Bebe Rexha, is ubiquitous on the radio. Pop & Rock Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z An elegy can be a lament, or a tribute, or just a poem in couplets. A Sibling Disappears, and the Mystery Repeats Itself 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Even in that single couplet you can read Milton's daring fusions: elegy and foreign politics, Christian and classical imagery. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z He alternately sang, sat behind a piano -- guy’s got some great barrelhouse chops -- blew typically mesmerizing harmonica runs, coughed-forth couplets and occasionally did a quirky little groove dance that signified approval or joy or something. Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z In a single couplet, the heart and soul of his corpus is delivered in beautiful, unvarnished style. Paul McCartney's "Flaming Pie" burns ever brighter in this new reissue, a completist's dream 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z What would-be immigrants couldn’t tell their interrogators they inscribed on the walls in the form of classical Chinese poetry—complete with parallel couplets, alternating rhymes, and tonal variations. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Each couplet in Proverbs 12 contrasts good with evil: A good man does this, while a wicked man does that. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z “Every couplet, every verse, every song, every character is constantly fighting for its life, even now.” Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z The ensuing hilarity is best captured in the following couplet: A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Featuring seven stories that were first published in magazines in the 1950s, this book will seem immediately familiar to Dr. Seuss readers, who will revel in the comic couplets about madcap creatures and wacky situations. New books by kid-lit legends 2011-11-11T01:25:25Z As someone who was interested in storytelling at the time, I was writing short stories, I was writing couplets. Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on how Seattle shaped his music 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z By mini-, we mean one or two rhyming couplets per character — so four to eight lines total. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It is an anonymous poem in rhyming couplets, informatively titled "Verses written over the chair of Ben Johnson, now remaining at Robert Wilson's at the signe of Johnson's Head in the Strand". Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z At one point the lovesick Jones recites a fine couplet from Euripides. Caleb Carr’s ‘Surrender, New York’ echoes ‘The Alienist’ in theme if not setting 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.” Tom Morello keeps punk-rock spirit of Woody Guthrie alive 2012-05-09T21:39:00Z He packs more rhymes into his couplets, sometimes five or six in a line. At the Inauguration, Amanda Gorman Wove History and the Future Into a Stirring Melody 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Riggs’s idea was to do a Halloween book of photos accompanied by rhyming couplets. Ransom Riggs Is Inspired by Vintage Snapshots 2013-12-30T22:52:09Z Her plain rhyming couplets – not particularly gracefully executed, it has to be admitted – are an ideal home for a set of speculations. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z The singer's focus was on hope and love, and great lyrical couplets echoed throughout the Bowl. Elvis Costello, Ben Folds harness the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z “Just Because,” published earlier this month and illustrated with playful subtlety by Renée Kurilla, is composed of inspirational lessons in the form of couplets. Matthew McConaughey Distills His ‘From the Hip’ Philosophy for Kids 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z Kipling even dedicated a couplet to the reviled deserter. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Imagine shooting the breeze with a cackling, clearsighted cynic who suddenly leans in, lowers her voice and describes the state of your soul in improvised rhyming couplets. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The last couplet traditionally includes the poet's name. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z One of the challenges of this kind of songcraft is using the form of a few short lyric couplets to "create a microcosm inside of one record." The Decemberists bring Americana landscape to Paramount Friday 2011-02-17T22:12:01Z Like Douglas, Golding used rhyming couplets for his translation. Poster poems: Translation 2010-08-20T09:42:00Z There is a compulsive use of the couplet: "brilliance and persistence, acceptance and slyness, dirt and glamour". The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z She addresses the audience in profanity-laced rhyming couplets that evoke the rollicking rhymes of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. A Green Light Is Given, It’s True, for a Grown-Up Cindy Lou Who 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z I’ve heard gripes about Bey’s celebration of Givenchy as well as the song’s concluding couplet: “Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper.” Dear liberal white guys: Before you offer your critique of Beyoncé’s “Formation,” read this 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s the heavy paranoia suffocating our national mood, but “Released” sounds like the greatest song Callahan has ever written, and its opening couplet is absolutely paralyzing. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Korie’s libretto, though too reliant on rhymed couplets, mostly does a graceful job of highlighting story lines and conveying character. Music Review: Collegiate Choral, With Jane Fonda, in a Concert Version 2010-03-23T22:18:00Z And so we get a play that squeezes contemporary English into pentameter couplets — and a story that, while still too complex to summarize, doesn’t matter. Review: Rhyme Gone Wild in ‘The Metromaniacs’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z It opens with a couplet that with precision and poeticism describes the earth and the "drifting continental shelf" upon which we toil. Jack White's 'Lazaretto' taps Nashville for songs' wellspring 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Most of Grande’s couplets fit neatly inside a text bubble, but here, she’s suddenly looking at a picture that spans centuries. Review | Ariana Grande reached the height of her fame by making heavy feel light 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z In crisp, rhyming couplets and a rapt watchfulness salted with irony, Sullivan’s debut collection introduces a worldly poet whose frame of reference is effortlessly wide. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z "Talking filets with truffle butter," explains Drake in the opening verse, part of a braggy series of couplets about seduction, money and food. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z One poem, “Traversal,” spins a tale in couplets about a peaceful morning spent rowing across a lake, a day with “the tensile strength of silk.” Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “I’m not ‘James at 15’ or ‘Chachi in Charge’/I’m Adam and I’m adamant about living large,” went one couplet. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z Now largely out of print and seldom read, the lengthy epic poem of love and hate and revenge in rhyming couplets was, in its day it, hugely successful. Walter Scott's poems and Turner's paintings celebrated in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum 2013-01-25T12:00:00Z He loves to violate the fourth rhyme in a quatrain, then rhyme the next couplet with the offending word. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z How can a song like 2009's “Forgetful Heart,” with the couplet, “The door has closed forevermore / If indeed there ever was a door,” be anything but? Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Look at the final couplet of "Self-Justification", the poem that precedes "Divisions". Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z It opens with three sets of irregular couplets. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z A happy ending — and the unexpected overlay of rhymed pentameter couplets — makes this the easiest of the eight to absorb. Review: Reliving ‘Private Lives,’ This Time Mostly Women’s 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The lyrics are sung in Mr. Sams’s mostly rhymed couplets, a playful translation only occasionally too cute. Review: ‘Die Fledermaus’ in Full, a First Under the Baton of James Levine 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Gioia, a lifelong jazz fan, is a lucid, accessible poet, who, for the purposes of this project, used rhyming couplets. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z “I could sit here all day and quote memorable David Berman couplets and never grow tired. He had no competition.” Perspective | If a human being was capable of feeling it, David Berman could write it and render it profound 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Both triplets of Sonnet 30 conclude with a powerful rhyming couplet. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z It's gorgeous, featuring great couplets such as, "There's no way you're getting rid of me yet/ There's no way I am a girl you will forget". New band of the day ? No 969: Misty Miller 2011-02-16T16:48:26Z He signed his pots “Dave” and added witty couplets that sometimes praised the very “noble jar” on which they were inscribed or expressed his longing to see the stars or lost family members. Antiques: Pottery by David Drake, a Slave Craftsman in Edgefield, S.C. 2012-08-30T21:17:32Z ChatGPT failed the assignment, writing a couplet consisting of seven characters. What Happens When You Ask a Chinese Chatbot About Taiwan? 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z These couplets emerge from the “empty” vacuum of space, and quantum mechanics tells us they constantly wink in and out of existence everywhere. This Is The Way The Universe Ends: By Evaporating 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Simply titled “Duplex,” each one contains 14 lines in seven couplets and several repeated lines. The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Characteristic of early hip-hop or rap music that emerged in New York City between the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, which often includes the use of couplets, funk and disco samples, and playful lyrics. The first 10 words of the African American English dictionary are in 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z It would speak to how Mexican cuisine appeals to all Americans, inspiring even Midwesterners to coin memorable couplets hailing its powers. Column: Copyrighting 'Taco Tuesday' is downright Trumpian 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z In rhyming couplets, she described the wonders of the castle, speaking faster and faster until the audience stood on its feet, applauding with awe. Iran’s storytelling tradition spans centuries. A woman in Tehrangeles has revolutionized it 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z On Sept. 6, 2014, when The Times asked for verse from readers, Koch weighed in with a long poem about grammar, which included this couplet: Jean Koch, a fixture on The Times' letters page for 55 years, dies at 100 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Smack in the middle of this collection, the dazzling poem “Los Angeles” strobes with quick images, zigzagging down the page like a spent firework — most memorably in the great couplet “bebop atop / the San Andreas.” The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Poetry 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In the book “Fashion Victims” he described his professional milieu in couplets: Michael Roberts, creative force in fashion, dies at 75 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z As she read the rhyming couplet inscribed in a large clay jar made before the Civil War, the 84-year-old Northeast D.C. resident could feel pain and loneliness in the anguished voice of her enslaved ancestor. Their enslaved ancestor’s pottery sells for over $1 million. They get nothing. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Millner explores what happens when the ferocity of wanting is bound by the restraint of form: Her novel unfolds as a series of poems, mostly the eponymous couplets. Review | ‘Couplets,’ an erotic novel in verse, explores the ferocity of desire 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z But “Lip Service” by Costello and the Attractions has the all-time classic couplet: “When did you become so choosy? Don’t act like you’re above me, just look at your shoes.” Love is a battlefield: Your guide to having a Valentine’s karaoke party 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z She even uses the rhyming couplets of her predecessor, in a collaboration that sings with humanity. 10 books to add to your reading list in February 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z But others felt more subtle, like ending some sections with rhymes, an echo of Shakespeare’s penchant for ending key passages with rhyming couplets. ‘Becoming Othello’: a powerful, electric play at Seattle Shakes 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Today his surviving pottery can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more — especially if the works include his cryptic couplets. Their enslaved ancestor’s pottery sells for over $1 million. They get nothing. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Millner’s narrator — a 28-year-old poet — tells her love story in both the first and second person, bluffing her way through becoming herself in couplets and prose poems. Review | ‘Couplets,’ an erotic novel in verse, explores the ferocity of desire 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The ending, like a perfect rhyming couplet, is both unexpected and inevitable: It is, of course, the chosen card. The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z So he began spinning couplets on the injury from Cupid’s arrow: How to improvise a wildly entertaining new Shakespeare play every night 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Among the hostile responses Mr. Lazar’s letter generated was an accusatory couplet, which read: “Is it just coincidence that Ernie’s words so arty, sound just like the Communist Party?” Ernie Lazar, Who Trawled for Secret Government Documents, Dies at 77 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z By 2012's All Too Well, she was capable of writing this devastating couplet: "You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest." Midnights: What we know about Taylor Swift's songwriting 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Scientists will continue to observe the asteroid couplet in the months to come, hoping to understand more about the shape of Dimorphos’s new orbit and whether DART’s impact introduced a ‘wobble’ to the asteroid. DART’s Smashing Success Shows Humanity Can Divert Asteroids 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z A translation of the inscription by Stephen Houston, an anthropologist at Brown University, revealed tales of battles, rituals, a legendary flood and a fantastical water serpent described in poetic couplets as “shiny sky, shiny earth.” Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above its Weight’ 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Reviewing her work as Viola in an NBC production of “Twelfth Night” in 1949, New York Times TV critic Jack Gould praised her understated charisma and mastery of making Shakespeare’s couplets sound effortlessly conversational. Marsha Hunt, movie star who confronted blacklist, dies at 104 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z As Hawkline plucked a banjo, Harding concluded the show with a melancholy couplet: “You made such a mountain/She won’t be coming ’round.” Review | Aldous Harding takes audience on a stirring quest for unexpected tones 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Its opening couplets set a mysterious, Chandler-esque tone: “A man in my shoes runs a light / And all the papers lied tonight / But falling over you / Is the news of the day.” At this weekend's Cruel World festival, goths and new wavers will sweat to the oldies 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Coulton cites a favorite couplet from her hit “Save Me” — one of Mann’s songs that appear on the 1999 “Magnolia” film soundtrack. Turns out Aimee Mann is really good at painting, too 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The couplet was strong for two scans, and there are indications that debris may have been lofted into the atmosphere. Severe storms bring damage, possible tornadoes in Fairfax County 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z In another conversation about the "near abroad", a friend recited a rhyming couplet to me. Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z She chanted the couplet cry of the insider outsider: “I am a poseur and I don’t care, I like to make people stare.” A complicated, groundbreaking punk heroine gets her due in new documentary 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Even the form of the poem is in steely couplets. Poem: Self-Portrait With Father 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s right there in the song’s first couplet: “The night we met I knew I needed you so,” she recalls, landing on that final word with a gymnast’s precision. Ronnie Spector's swagger made her a rock 'n' roll immortal. It also saved her life 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z A similarly tight couplet also briefly materialized on velocity mode. Severe storms bring damage, possible tornadoes in Fairfax County 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The four then separate into new couplets, with different partners. Robert H. Grubbs, Caltech Nobel Prize winner who revolutionized green chemistry, dies 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Meteorologists observed an intense velocity “couplet” on radar, in which air racing in one direction clashes with air racing in another. How Friday night’s rare and deadly December tornado outbreak unfolded 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.” University of Chicago professor satirizes abortion supporters in Telegram poetry group 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z If Shakespeare was a genius at rhyming couplets, so is Stephen Sondheim: just listen to the staggering lyrics of America, the showstopper in West Side Story, winner of 10 Oscars. From Gnomeo & Juliet to Baz Luhrmann: 10 of the best Romeo and Juliets 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z On Thursday, it responded to a Politico article about the dispute with an effort at Seussian flare that included this couplet: Early in Biden’s presidency, GOP shows the places they’ll go 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z And “illegal alien,” the harsh-sounding couplet that conjures up images of intergalactic invasions? Column: The California roots of the fight over the term 'illegal alien' 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z A sign of rotation, the couplet seen on the quad-state storm was among the strongest observed by modern radar. How Friday night’s rare and deadly December tornado outbreak unfolded 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z A poet thinks of a four-letter word and describes it in couplets, others try to guess the subject, framing their answers in flower code. In This Petal Poem Game, Say It With Flowers 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Such topics are mixed with couplets about personal pain and bliss, sometimes within the same song. Review: Ani Di Franco makes the political personal on album 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The storm intensified markedly south and east of Vina around 2:30 p.m., with a rotational “velocity couplet” appearing on radar. Two rare tornadoes struck northern California on Monday 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Judt found his book's title in the first words of this couplet: Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The opening couplet goes: "I am woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore". 11 rock and pop anthems that never made the charts 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z One player is the “Poet,” and describes any four-letter word with rhyming couplets. In This Petal Poem Game, Say It With Flowers 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z With a confident voice that gracefully moves from singing to rapping to that sublime space in between, the charismatic St. Panther owns every couplet she delivers. Straight outta Irvine: Meet St. Panther, the wildly talented producer, musician and singer 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The southbound drawspan of the First Avenue South bridge couplet will remain open for normal traffic. Overnight work will close I-5 exits and First Avenue South bridge lanes this summer 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Scholars disagree about the meaning of this couplet. It's time to cancel 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Here's what should replace it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The last couplets on “Murder Most Foul” are a playful set of rhymed requests. The 17 best lyrics from Bob Dylan's new album, 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z On Instagram, he posted a photo of Ms. Hegazi smiling as she gripped a pair of tickets for his concert, then he sang a couplet Ms. Hegazi posted before her death: Arrested for Waving Rainbow Flag, a Gay Egyptian Takes Her Life 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Then there’s “My Own Version of You,” a “Frankenstein”-like phantasmagoria that opens with these incredible couplets: Bob Dylan's 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' is a savage pulp-noir masterpiece: Review 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z By 1963, the aphoristic couplet about the best and the worst was enough of a cliche to irritate the critic Raymond Williams. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z It ended with the couplet: “In every lonely place find love / in every love find thunder.” 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Elsewhere on “Mother of Muses,” Dylan pens a pair of couplets that seem to drift off the page: The 17 best lyrics from Bob Dylan's new album, 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Filled with stylistic shifts, a commercial pop sheen and typically witty couplets and choruses, “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip” sounds not like a nostalgia trip from veterans but a contemporary, electronically driven art-pop album. After 50 years of cultdom, rock oddballs Sparks are about to have a moment 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Noticing a man she fancied, she apparently marched up to him and declared: “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick,” a chat-up line she would later work into the track’s opening couplet. Lady Gaga's 30 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z He lines up phrases next to one another — fragments and couplets, nerd brags and white jokes, most of which will never reach the final lyric sheet: The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Who stops to gaze and pen a couplet for the ragweed poking up from the Manhattan sidewalk? Nature surrounds us, even in quarantine 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z The center also is one of the first facilities in the state to offer what it calls “couplet care.” New NC maternity center is ‘ideal place’ for expectant moms 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Christian asks and his question gets to the paradoxical heart of this play: the language of romance, whether in Alexandrine verse or rap couplets, is entrancing but not wholly trustworthy. From first love to unfollowing – culture that sums up romance in 2020 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, the sheer volume of “Kobe” mentions hidden in rhymed couplets is notable, as are the variety of ways his name has been employed. What's the best hip-hop lyric to name-drop Kobe Bryant? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z One picture features the saying on a yellow background, framed with a couplet that urges people to wash their hands frequently, wear masks and improve ventilation. Chinese wish is for new year health, not fortune 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Most of the universe’s black hole mergers are thought to be one-off finales between stellar binaries—star couplets that were born, lived and died together—of moderate mass. Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The word “prison” punctuates every couplet of the poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Poetry After Prison 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z This adaptation, directed by Jamie Lloyd, is written in rhyming couplets too but derives from the stripped down, streetwise language of rap and spoken word poetry. From first love to unfollowing – culture that sums up romance in 2020 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The song We Are Real, another from American Water, sees each couplet compete with each other to be the song’s defining take. David Berman charted the jagged landscape of America – and himself 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z His most famous couplet opens the Silver Jews’ album “American Water.” David Berman, acclaimed indie-rock singer-songwriter and poet, dies at 52 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z For his part, Gibbs is an unapologetic street rapper who cusses his way through verses with glee, tossing f-bombs as he relays couplets. California Sounds: New music from Madlib & Freddie Gibbs, Nia Andrews and Oh Sees 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z After a few couplets, you see the Sisyphean pattern. Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Poetry After Prison 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The curious scoured the sheik’s couplets for clues they were directed at Haya. Intrigue, secrecy — an angry poetic outburst — surround reports of runaway Gulf princess 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z It is spiritual and sexual, sometimes within the same couplet. Aretha: Her story was in her songs 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The eight-minute track split into three parts opens with a distinctively Calexico Spanish couplet, followed by an instrumental jam and finishing with a part that sounds like a separate song entirely. Review: Calexico and Iron & Wine, a reunion worth the wait 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z An actual couplet from this gloriously stupid party song: “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday / Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday.” Ranked! The 21st century’s best (and worst) songs of the summer 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z I’ll share a theory: Every great song has some little hook, some hummable couplet, some flourish that elevates that song above others. Come kick around cowboy country with me, while we still can 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Its gag worked through the same hilarious principle of the Rodgers and Hart song Manhattan, with its couplet: “The city’s clamour can never spoil / The dreams of a boy and goil.” Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The artist, who named his first studio album “Black Ben Carson,” incites with every couplet. California Sounds: The must-hear locals performing at Coachella 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z There’s no real substitute, especially in gloomy moments, for listening to some familiar song and feeling that the songwriter knew exactly how you felt when they wrote those twisty little couplets. Ddu-du you know? English is losing its grip as the language of pop | Caroline Sullivan 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z And you know just thinking of it technically on the page, you know, you have these couplets, which of course mirrors these pairs, both father and son and mother and son and husband and wife. Craig Morgan Teicher Reads Forrest Gander 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Pope’s Homer read like Homer when it was published, although the idea of reading ancient Greek verse in strict rhymed couplets seems to us a brilliant Augustan period piece. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Her final couplet, often quoted, asks the reader: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" Pulitzer-winner Mary Oliver dies aged 83 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z I’m not squeamish, except for one small thing: I cannot repeat rhyming couplets. Red Bull wants us to leave work at 4pm. I couldn’t agree more 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z One couplet, written in Urdu, read, “Everyone should participate in the freedom struggle; everyone’s dream is freedom but no one wants to fight and die for it!” Fight against India joins 2 Kashmir teens in life and death 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It includes a striking couplet addressed to those 'pale hands': The forgotten English poet buried in India 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The river of ideas that flows from those opening couplets is as raging as it is powerful. California Sounds: Noname's confident new record, Sarah Davachi's secular reveries and Harriet Brown's new synth-funk video 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He described a shingle behind the marquee that had a couplet from Rudyard Kipling’s “If” scrawled across it. The Secret Tennis Past of a Basketball Lifer 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Armed with a newly earned MFA in creative writing, Shires serves up quotable couplets about champagne, clothes envy and music versus sports. Review: ‘To the Sunset’ is Amanda Shires’ best album yet 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Note the way slant and full rhyming couplets provide graceful rails for this poem’s difficult subject. The Year the Law Changed 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z After the gunfight, Bhat found the remains of two pillars and carved a couplet in ash: ‘Everything is lost’: A poet in conflict-torn Kashmir laments the destruction of his life’s work 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z On “Regal,” Noname rides a delicate, bell-dotted, finger-snapped beat while casually tossing off complex couplets such as: “No more apples or oranges, only pickles and pacifists/Twitter ranting for martyrdom unified as capitalists.” California Sounds: Noname's confident new record, Sarah Davachi's secular reveries and Harriet Brown's new synth-funk video 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He has also been known to deliver speeches in rhyming couplets at his friends’ momentous occasions. The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The implications of “cloak” shift from disguise in the first couplet to shield in the last. Poem: And He Stays Dead 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z One byproduct of this power struggle was an emboldened community whose voices were eager to vent in rhymed couplets. Rolling down Rosecrans in Compton, L.A. hip-hop's Main Street – LA Times 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In the brain space where memorised poems should be I have a large collection of rap couplets. Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Across dozens of couplets, the group plays tour guide: “On Rosecrans pass Oleander at the light / Tree Top is to the left, Fruit Town is on the right,” Bloody Mary raps. What are the best songs that reference Rosecrans Avenue? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “Mechanical Man” features this god-awful series of couplets: Charles Manson's life as a failed musician, Beach Boys hanger-on and mediocre songwriter 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z A couplet coined by a particularly enthusiastic indulgence-hawker captured this crudity nicely: Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z His playful, rhyming couplets of Moliere's "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope" were often called the definitive editions of those classic 17th-century satires. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Richard Wilbur Dies at 96 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z His playful, rhyming couplets of Moliere’s “Tartuffe” and “The Misanthrope” were often called the definitive editions of those classic 17th-century satires. Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, dies at 96 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z He also indulges in some cringe-inducing rhyming couplets, though the punchy single “Wall of Glass” pleasingly rhymes “one direction” with “resurrection.” Review: Liam Gallagher struts his stuff on ‘As You Were’ 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z If she don't finesse a sample of the Kanye 'reputation' couplets this was a waste. The Internet Is Losing It Over Taylor Swift's New Album Title 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The couplet encompasses the fear that those who have been in relationships do sometimes struggle with: good God, what happens to me if I am left alone? Glen Campbell: a universal voice who defined American manhood 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Yen, meanwhile, is among many other who recite verses written in classical Chinese; some of the text dates back to the Confucian period, while the couplet Yen reads was written by Mao Zedong. China Orders Propaganda Videos at Movie Screenings 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A comfort with both Hollywood and academia coexist in Kazan, whose emergence as a film force is at once as inevitable as an Elizabethan tragedy and as surprising as a rhyming couplet. Zoe Kazan, an intense intellectual in a Judd Apatow world 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Fifteen years ago Berry spoke to The Times about one of the newer songs he was working on, quoting a metaphorically rich couplet: “A builder built a temple/ He wrought it with grace and skill.” The four-decade odyssey of Chuck Berry's swan-song album, 'Chuck' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “I’m definitely working against the grain,” acknowledges playwright David Ives, whose “The School for Lies” and its rhyming couplets are coming to the Shakespeare Theatre Company next week. A modern ‘Misanthrope’ in the play ‘School for Lies,’ at Shakespeare Theatre 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z "I wish that politicians ties/Would tighten up when they tell lies," goes one couplet on If Wishes Were Horses. Tony Blackburn reveals his folk band past at Radio 2 Folk Awards - BBC News 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “Simple Fix” is a hardened ode to lost love that features the couplet, “We’re babies passing for adults/ Who’ve loaded up their catapults.” Aimee Mann embraces the darkness on her new album, 'Mental Illness' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Corden ended his show-opening rap with the couplet, “Live it up because this is the best / And with President Trump we don’t know what comes next.” James Corden brings mean tweets, slapstick and Carpool Karaoke as Grammys' good humor man 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z People often leave the couplets in front of their doors for good luck and protection. New York Today: The Year of the Rooster 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z To do that, a comedy in verse must somehow overcome the fact that people in real life don’t converse in rhymed couplets. A modern ‘Misanthrope’ in the play ‘School for Lies,’ at Shakespeare Theatre 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Across the hundreds of couplets, “RTJ3” references online surveillance, the police state, Chicago gangland and a power structure that earns profits despite the poverty surrounding them. Has Hollywood lost touch with American values? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z A look back at the highs — and lows — in 2016 cinema, in couplet rhyme. ‘Say bye-bye, 2016’: It's that time for a movie year in rhyme 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s worth noting here that Garfield went on to finish singing Lennon’s song, “God,” laughing with pleasure as he came to the couplet, “Yoko and me / That’s reality.” Through 'Hacksaw' and 'Silence,' Andrew Garfield searches: 'I want to know how to live' 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z That couplet sparked a hearty chorus of cheers among women in the audience. Neil Young has a fire in his belly in new 'Peace Trail' album 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z From the song Drops of Jupiter comes the following couplet: When bad music comes on the radio, I crank up the volume | David Ferguson 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Keats dedicated “Endymion” to him, and Wordsworth, in homage, penned his famous couplet: “We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z One couplet goes, “Three hundred riders moved, after them all cheetah-keepers followed.” The world's fastest animal is in a race for survival in Iran 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Over the years, their emails have become as predictable to me as a blues couplet. A white Southerner searches for the source of his family’s racism 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The second line of the couplet “But square-cut or pear-shape/These rocks don’t lose their shape,” with its pinpoint high note on “their,” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”? That was Ms. Nixon too. Marni Nixon, the Voice Behind the Screen, Dies at 86 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “Do you remember what that couplet was?” asked Anderson. Led Zeppelin cleared of stealing riff for Stairway to Heaven 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In the film, a subtle old Sikh villain dismisses his state’s future with a Punjabi couplet—“The lands are dry and the kids are high”—and a shrug. Pushing poppies in Punjab 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Mike Bartlett’s agile aristocratic saga weds contemporary politics and modern parlance to Elizabethan couplets and historical drama. 7 Tony-nominated shows that might hit Seattle-area stages 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Almost from the beginning of his career, when he was still called Cassius Clay, his rhymed couplets, like his punches, were brutal and blunt. Muhammad Ali, the Political Poet 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He posted pictures online with a few couplets of poetry. China’s memory manipulators | Ian Johnson 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Yes, notebooks full of scribbled funny sentences or rhyming couplets. The ultimate Luna interview: Noah Baumbach and Dean Wareham talk super-groups, the Velvet Underground and the history of one of New York’s greatest bands 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z With his unforgettable couplets, quips and coined phrases, William Shakespeare is one of the most quoted and referenced writers of all time. Watch: Shakespeare's Life in One Minute 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Similarly, the patois used in hip-hop was originally used to defy the same enemies, the argot defined by clever puns, rapid rhyming couplets, blink-and-you-miss-it wordplay and don’t-give-a-toss attitude set to an insistent beat. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The rhythmic couplets, written in Russian, are among the first in a 541-page anthology of Russian and Soviet poetry by employees of the Foreign Ministry published in 2012. Tension is the diplomats’ curse, which Russians cure by writing verse 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Consider a couplet from “Hello”: “I long to see the sunlight in your hair/And tell you time and time again how much I care.” 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z If you're one of those who think not enough news stories are written in rhyming couplets nowadays, you'll be cheered by recent developments in China. A misty-eyed ode to China's leader from a deputy editor - BBC News 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z In the first half of this couplet, the author, representing a large mining pool, argues that the existence of numerous mines and full nodes is crucial to the health and decentralization of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is on the verge of splitting in two 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z According to other engineers, Bostian’s “couplet” on May 12 — a run down to Washington and a run back to New York — was one of the routes affected. The Wreck of Amtrak 188 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s a testament to the writing here that such vivid couplets aren’t uncommon on the album. Eric Church's 'Beyoncé moment' reveals one of country's contemporary greats 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The contests, in the words of that traditional wedding couplet, bring “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” The hottest race in D.C. next year may be the city council elections 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Take for instance his Sorting Bot, a Twitter bot that, if you choose to follow it, will eventually sort you into one of the four houses of Hogwarts and tweet a rhyming couplet at you. Ethical Ad Blocker ensures you never see an ad — or an ad-supported website 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z And in fact, it begins with a couplet. Louise Penny: Bestselling Mystery Discusses Her New Novel 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s easy to see: a rattled young engineer finishing the second leg of a frustrating couplet, aboard a racehorse of a high-powered locomotive he was still growing accustomed to. The Wreck of Amtrak 188 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The song begins with this couplet: “I still remember miss Bessie singing/ Black, wrinkled fingers on ivory keys.” Eric Church's 'Beyoncé moment' reveals one of country's contemporary greats 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The following delightful couplet contains an example of y’all from a century and a half before the OED’s current earliest citation: Y’all: It’s Older Than We Knew 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But as the northern vortex dissipated, the southern couplet strengthened as it pushed from southern Charles County into northern St. Mary’s County just north of Leonardtown, Md. Two tornadoes confirmed in Southern Maryland from Saturday’s storms 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z I think poets manage to achieve in a couplet what I struggle in an entire book to achieve. Louise Penny: Bestselling Mystery Discusses Her New Novel 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It is not unusual, engineers say, to have two or three objects hit you over the course of a couplet. The Wreck of Amtrak 188 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z For all her “this sick beat” bravado, there’s bottomless venom in the couplet: “You would hide away and find your peace of mind, with some indie record that’s much cooler than mine.” Apple royalties U-turn: is Taylor Swift the most powerful woman in music? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z In Germany, she made friends with a Russian composer, and wrote, for his amusement only, a libretto for an operetta—in rhymed couplets, in German. Bricklayer, Bird-Watcher, Literary Sensation 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The researchers discovered the likely existence of this couplet effect only in recent weeks, during field work in the region. Nepal quake 'followed historic pattern' - BBC News 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z In addition to some charming spelling, many of the posts are rhyming couplets: Apparently Scottish Police Think Legos Can Stop Break-Ins 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Hence today’s interest in what is called privilege theory, which takes a dark view of the old couplet “All men are by nature equal/ but differ greatly in the sequel.” Social inequality’s deepening roots 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In that text, the poem ends after the sixth couplet, with its glum reference to Tithonus being seized by gray old age. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The ancient Sanskrit epic, one of Hinduism's crucial texts built of around 100,000 couplets, tells of a dynastic struggle for power and a cataclysmic war won by the righteous Pandava brothers. Ancient Indian epic to be retold on Twitter from villain's viewpoint 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z And science is looked upon fancifully as in the Pope couplet, "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.." Retrograde Beliefs 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z She looked almost supernaturally youthful, at 74, in a tiara and sequinned dress; her delivery of rhyming couplets was less compelling. It’s behind you! 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The form—a form that Dante helped to invent—is the sonnet, here reduced to its rudiments: fourteen lines, a rumor of pentameter, a tart couplet at the close. An Alaskan Poet’s Lyrics of Sex and Power 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Putting on a Caribbean accent, Read lets rip with rhyming couplets such as: “Leaders committed a cardinal sin, open the borders let them all come in.” Ukip Release Calypso Song Featuring Mock-Carribean Accent "Chained" has this really sad and lovely couplet song in duet by Romy and Oliver, "Did I hold you too tight?/ Did I not let enough light in?" Schnipper's top 10 not cool, whatever jams 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z He opens the track “Hol’ Up” with this couplet: “I wrote this record while 30,000 feet in the air/Stewardess complimenting me on my nappy hair.” Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop’s Newest Old-School Star 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Asked by a journalist what outcome he expected from his meeting with Mr. Modi, Mr. Sharif recited an Urdu couplet that trasnlates as, “cling to the tree and hope, for spring is in sight.” Leaders of India and Pakistan Hold Rare Meeting 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Her final poem, a single couplet called “Threshold,” invites us to cross it: “what i should of softly sweetly surely said: / ‘o wingèd boy, come read with me in bed.’ ” An Alaskan Poet’s Lyrics of Sex and Power 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps the only thing that really didn’t work for me in the entire game was the rhyming couplets. 'Child Of Light' Review: Pure Magic 2014-04-30T18:32:00Z He recited the 2005 version, which poked fun at hysterical right-wingers, in couplets, on the floor of the House. Congress: Dingell’s bell 2014-02-27T16:07:01Z But last couplet goes to Rod King of Exeter, who replied in some style. The Loop: Nobel grilling 2013-12-13T18:20:14Z Another commercial, set in a Japanese restaurant and featuring the rapper Coolio, also juxtaposes rhyming couplets with offbeat humor. Advertising: Mike’s, a Flavored Alcohol Brand, Tries to Widen Its Appeal 2013-05-23T00:59:10Z Yet Yeats was both a Romantic poet and a Modern one, and he followed up this couplet with a more counterintuitive one, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst /Are full of passionate intensity.” From Atoms To Bits, Physics Shows Entropy As The Root Of Intelligence 2013-04-21T13:02:06Z And then there's Shah Shuja's own autobiography that's an account of a man writing couplets on the edge of lakes, wandering from ambush to ambush. India Ink: A Conversation With: Author William Dalrymple 2012-12-06T11:10:19Z “That couplet should be a warning to local business and government leaders,” said Stephen Fuller, director of George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis. Area unemployment for July remains at 5.4% 2012-08-29T17:34:00Z Dr D'Angour wrote the ode in ancient Greek with modern lyrics, and said he translated the six verses into "fun English rhyming couplets". Olympics poem recited by Boris 2012-07-22T23:34:48Z Voltaire, in the best-known couplet he ever wrote, defends the act on occasions of extreme necessity.113 Among the atheistical party it was warmly eulogised, and Holbach and Deslandes were prominent as its defenders. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Anne Roberts died in 1743, aged thirty, and on her gravestone is a couplet as follows:— The World’s a Stage, at Birth our Plays begun, And all find Exits when their Parts are done. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z This hymn opened with the following couplet:— Jesu, mighty Saviour, Thou art in us now. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z It is not, for example, possible to think of finding in Pulci such a couplet as this: But almost sanctify the sweet excess By the immortal wish and power to bless. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z I will just mention that my friend, T-nn-s-n, who has a pretty faculty for poetry, once summed me up in a couplet which I venture to think is not without its charm. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 2012-04-14T02:00:21.840Z On the "Bacchanal" a couplet shows its motive,— "Who drinks not over and over again, Knows not what drinking is." Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z It is owing to this, in part, that the heroic couplet is so often required to give, in translation, the full value of a single Homeric hexameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Without sacrificing the poetry of the rhymed couplets, she put the breath of life and of conversational meaning into them. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z As the last couplet fell on Fidunia's ears all else became as nought. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z But, having thrown off this couplet, it appeared in itself so sufficient, so comprehensive yet so precise, that amplification would have rather reduced than increased its value. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 2012-04-14T02:00:21.840Z After both hands have played the first note of their respective groups simultaneously, the place of the aforesaid second sixteenth is to be filled by the second note of the couplet. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z It is important to insist that it is the couplet, not the single line, which constitutes heroic verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z But we have another version of the whole, omitting the aforesaid two lines and a subsequent couplet. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z "Eight bells, sir," said the old man, rising as the four couplets proclaimed the hour. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Here is another sonnet ending in a couplet, which I quote for several reasons. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z He had written a play called "Dionysius" in rhymed couplets. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z It is to be noted, however, that those Elizabethans who, like Chapman, Warner and Drayton, aimed at producing a warlike and Homeric effect, did so in shambling fourteen-syllable couplets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z For parallels with the first of these couplets take the following: “Silver stream.” Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z As has been indicated, many of the negro songs consist of single lines repeated in couplets or by fours in order to give length to the singing. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z The most usual way of doing this is to end the Petrarchan sonnet with the couplet typical of the Shakespearean form, as in Blanco White's "Night." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z At all events, if we substitute for the last couplet, "Her dress is sufficient—though on it She only spends what is strictly required." Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z It is composed in octosyllabic verses, which rhyme in couplets; each verse presenting to the student some useful Chinese notion, either in morals or in general knowledge. The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) 2012-03-01T03:00:25.290Z For a single parallel with the second couplet take this: “Twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be.” Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z His refined critical perception had detected the superiority of Chaucer’s versification, as adapted to the present state of the language by Dryden, over the sententious epigrammatic couplet of Pope which had superseded it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z One objection to this method is that it produces, as you see, a rhymed couplet in the midst of the sestet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z An old couplet says: “For ringers, singers, and a crier Bewdley excelled all Worcestershire.” England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z In Grace Ballou's autograph album is a couplet, very neatly printed and signed A. B. It bears date one year back, and one year ago Grace Ballou and Arch Brookhouse were both students at Amora. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z One couplet of it is as follows: “For when men know the goodness of the wine, ’Tis needless for the host to have a sign.” Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z It is said the poet's observation of this pair prompted the couplet of "Don Juan:" "But oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?" A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z It is seldom that we find such a couplet as: "The vulture shadows with arrested wings, The indecipherable boasts of kings," in the midst of the sestet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z A couplet concerning Congleton Church Bible being sold to purchase a bear to bait at the annual feast, has made the town known in all parts of the country. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z It was a leaf torn from an album, and it contained a sentimental couplet, printed in large, bold letters. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z I often thought of the couplet in the old song— “The hounds are baying on my track, Christian, will you send me back?” The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Even Luther, a good Catholic in his day, a reformer, a Doctor of Divinity, gave to the world this couplet: "Who loves not woman, wine and song, Will live a fool his whole life long." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z But there are many verse writers who use the couplet, unrelated in rhyme to the rest of the sestet, to conclude the sonnet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z They depart from the Italian sonnet form in closing with a couplet, as is the case with most of the sonnets of Surrey and Wyat, but they have a grace and tenderness all their own. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z It consists of 60,000 rhymed couplets, and embraces the history of Persia, from the beginning of the world to the period of its conquest by the Arabs. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z You have a work which has this couplet: ‘Two deep, dark stains, mar all our country’s bliss: Foul slavery one, and one, loathed drunkenness.’ The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z —The couplet quoted by your correspondent RT. is from Varro, and I think he will find it given by Mad. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z The great danger is that the final couplet will give the conclusion of the sonnet too much of a snap, too much of an epigrammatic flavor. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z It is addressed to Fulke Greville, and written, with much sententious melody, in a sort of terza rima, or, more properly, ottava rima with the couplet omitted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z With their last couplet, the children of the first line raise their arms, forming arches, and the children of the second line, letting go hands, dance under these arches as they respond. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The exquisite Early English chancel is lighted on either side by four couplets of lancet windows, in ideal proportion, while five equally ideal lancets serve for an East window. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z At the top of each print is the name of the subject, accompanied with a passage from scripture, and at the bottom three couplets of German verses. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Therefore it is well to avoid this device, although it cannot be denied that some of the greatest sonnets in the language end in a couplet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The use of the heroic couplet was its distinguishing mark; of course, an imitation of French practice. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The bulk of the poem is written in rhyming couplets of short lines of four accents, and maintains a fair level throughout. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Ottava, ot-t�′v�, n. an octave.—Ottava rima, an Italian form of versification consisting of eight lines, the first six rhyming alternately, the last two forming a couplet—used by Byron in Don Juan. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Then I caught at various couplets of a possible millennial poem, but feared I should not write it. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This form consists merely of the quatrains, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f, followed by a rhymed couplet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The curious heroic rant, indeed, supplied a vocabulary and a manner that lasted long after the jingle of the rhyming couplets had been abandoned. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This is put with great clearness and brevity in a couplet prefixed to the above narrative: "He should obtain all his desires, Who offers more than he requires." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z This couplet is oddly misprinted in all the other editions, 'Fortune, alas, above the world's law warres, Hope kicks the curld'.... The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z On another bell, which has been recast, was graven a delightful couplet informing the faithful of the many services which consecrated bronze could render to the country round. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Many critics deny that three quatrains followed by a couplet constitute a true sonnet, and Professor Brander Matthews always calls this form not a sonnet but a "fourteener." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z At times Dryden's rapidity and vigor almost justify the rhymed couplets and redeem the absurdities of the conventions. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z With the example of many enchanted passages of allusion no less recondite occurring in the ballads of his own country-side, Lockhart might reasonably have been expected to have done much better than the last couplet. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z This couplet is below: Lo, where a wounded heart, with bleeding eyes conspire: Is she a flaming fountaine, or a weeping fire? The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z The characteristic strophe in which it is written consists of four verses, the first three of equal length, the fourth somewhat longer, rhymed in couplets on the final syllable. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z He wrote an ordinary note as Rogers wrote an ordinary couplet. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z —Can you tell me where I can find the antecedents of the following couplets? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-30T03:00:24.060Z The portions which occur in Shakespeare are the first stanza, and fragments of the fifth, sixth, and seventh; he also introduces a couplet which does not belong to the ballad as here given. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 2011-12-28T03:00:36.217Z I have arranged these poems in numbered couplets as in the Sancroft ms. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z Tennyson quoted Shirley’s couplet: Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Some witty boy formed a couplet, which was often shouted upon the play-ground, not a little to the annoyance of the young lover. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z They are often held together by a very slender thread of continuous thought, and few editions agree exactly in the order of the couplets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Between the couplets there was a silent pause, filled with the tramp of feet. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Who can sing with more sentiment and with less ear the couplet: "When Aben Hamet Granada left, He felt his heart of joy bereft." The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z I happened on this couplet the other day: The shapeless purpose of a soul that feels, And half suppresses wrath and half reveals. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Is it probable Pope borrowed his idea of the fine couplet, "Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away!" from Flatman? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-24T03:07:54.103Z He writes in the heroic couplet, which he manœuvres with great ease and smoothness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z At his fourth wedding that prelate had the good taste and feeling to present his friends with memorial rings inscribed with the couplet:— 'If I survive I'll make them five.' Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z There were some very smart couplets, I remember; but it was never acted.” Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z On another a couplet which has all the subtle romance of Edward Lear: Rare and changeless, firm and few, Are the Italian nouns in U. The life at Grasby Vicarage was of the simplest. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The player and the company gradually warm up till couplet after couplet of pathetic "malague�as" follow in quick succession. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z He felt the sentiment would have reached a larger dignity, a more epigrammatick crispness, a more trenchant elusiveness, if it had never strayed beyond the bonds of an heroick couplet. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z It consists of a plain cornelian set in silver, with the following couplet engraved on the rim:— 'Against my King I do not fight, But for my King and kingdom's right.' Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z Refreshing, sophisticatedly unsophisticated, yet genuinely revealing of Lord Chesterfield's character, are a half dozen unknown couplets which almost summarize his philosophy of manners. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.883Z The last couplet seems to me—where all is powerful and imaginative—to be a master-stroke of terse and pointed expression. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z They include also the farmers' wives, the kitchen slaves of whom the old couplet tells: "Man's work ends from sun to sun, But woman's work is never done." The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Many of these old poems begin and end with the same line or couplet. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z The following couplet may help in remembering when to write ie and when to write ei: When the letter c you spy, Put the e before the i. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The story ended with Nicolini being kicked downstairs and the press commented upon the episode with an apt couplet from Schiller to the effect that "life is hard, but merry is art!" Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z There are heaps of single lines, couplets, and stanzas that would consume the ——s and ——s like stubble.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z I have heard that you explained to S�rvabhauma in eighteen different ways the following couplet of the Bh�gabat, I. vii. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z The text is in short rhyming couplets, and takes the child from its birth through all the duties, occupations, and incidents of life. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z In fact, he was drowned not long ago, because a man from Pontoise chased him, calling him by his real name, and singing a couplet in which he was ridiculed about his accident. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z The metre is the short couplet, and it is extremely smooth and regular. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z During the delay accorded by law and which circumstances required, Beaumarchais composed a comic opera, which he ornamented with couplets to the Spanish and Italian airs which he had brought back with him from Madrid. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Every couplet, nay every letter of it breathes a variety of senses. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z Sounds shaped themselves into something like articulation, and the following couplet was distinctly heard:— "While the eagle is in his nest, the eaglet shall not prevail, Nor shall the eagle be smitten in his eyrie." The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z In her preoccupation she had not realized that another couplet of initials had appeared in the dust. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Most of you have perhaps the impression that Doctor Holmes chiefly enjoys a pretty couplet, a beautiful verse, an elegant sentence. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z In verses or couplets which he composed, there was always a turn, an idea, a striking feature, another would have missed. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Like the two other Lucks in Cumberland, the Luck of Burrell Green has its legend and couplet. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z But, most provokingly, whenever I think of Xerxes, the first thing that presents itself to my mind is the couplet in the Primer, "Xerxes the Great did die, And so must you and I." Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z He contrasts his characters in pairs, a Greek and a Roman in each couplet. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Dr. Obousy, for one, made his preference known in a couplet: On to the stars! Possibility Is Thrust of 100-Year Starship Study 2011-10-17T21:35:13Z The lines are arranged, not in couplets or in stanzas of equal length, but in laisses or tirades, consisting of any number of lines from half a dozen to some hundreds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z French Alexandrines are arranged in couplets, alternately acatalectic with masculine rhymes, and hypercatalectic with feminine rhymes. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z “A great many didactic pieces,” said I; “in one of which is a famous couplet to this effect: ‘He who satire loves to sing On himself will satire bring.’” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z You know the queer old couplet,— "Them what is rich, them rides in chaises; Them what is poor, them walks like blazes." Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z Announce it this evening at the conclusion of the performance, in couplets suitable to the occasion. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z The romances are in octosyllabic couplets or in prose, and their language is different from that of the chansons, and contains much fewer of the usual epic repetitions and stock phrases. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Every alliterative couplet had two accented syllables, containing the same initial consonants, one in each of the two sections.—v.i. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Segel began to laugh on hearing this couplet, which she accompanied with very expressive gestures. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z "Ridiculous!" he exclaimed, as he returned the couplet to Robertson, the course of his ideas changing in a moment. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Clairon he consecrated his muse, and every day chanted her praises in couplet or in quatrain, wherein he vowed that Venus and Vesta were unworthy to be compared with this adorable, this divine young actress. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z A single manuscript contains forty miracles of the Virgin, averaging from 1200 to 1500 lines each, written in octosyllabic couplets, and at least as old as the 14th century, most of them perhaps much earlier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The succeeding couplet has equal merit: "But if thy ruby lip it spy As kiss it thou mayst deign, With envy pale 'twill lose its dye, And Yorkist turn again." Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z There lay the peaceful pioneer settlement—artfully fashioned from paste-board—while the simple but virile settlers strolled up and down the embryo Main Street and exchanged couplets. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z I do not mean to say that here and there Tennyson does not give us a couplet in which motion seems reflected without being made to tarry. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z She sang a new song containing many naughty couplets, in which mud was thrown upon some of the courtiers. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Footnote 15: In the original this forms a rhymed couplet. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z And there it stuck, as though these questions were indeed unanswerable; the fact being, there was another still to come, which, however, involved an execrable couplet as it stood. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z A great part of medieval romance is nothing but a translation into medieval forms, into French couplets, of the passion of Medea or of Dido. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z A ewe with couplets in the flock there was, Some hurt had lamed one lamb, which toiled behind Bleeding, while in the front its fellow skipped. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The King permitted the couplets to pass in silence. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z I know not what made Silis so abruptly begin to sing, and with that wailing couplet only, or why she lapsed at once into silence again. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The epitaph on his tomb is by Pope, and is followed by Gay’s own mocking couplet:— “Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z One of these imitates the original verse of Ipomedon, it is written in the ordinary short couplets. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z When the sign of the Franklin Inn was set up in Philadelphia in 1774, it bore this couplet:— “Come view your patriot father! and your friend, And toast to Freedom and to slavery’s end.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Then, triumphantly, he completed the couplet: “It may suit some, but it doesn’t suit all!” The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z Alice thanked him in a few grateful couplets, and pulled out another bandanna with money tied up in it from which she paid him. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z The poem has little interest at the present day, except as a proof that the heroic couplet was written with smoothness and polish before the days of Pope. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z But he fails in his choice of verse; he translates the French couplets of Ipomedon into a form of stanza, like that which Chaucer burlesques in Sir Thopas. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z It was the greediest of all rat-holes, an agency of impoverishment worse even than the four specified in Poor Richard's couplet, "Women and Wine, Game and Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Three fingers of right hand in 150 fraternal couplets—random and observed 182 XXVI. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z He once told James T. Fields that, in one couplet of the parody, Holmes had excelled the entire original poem: Not like muffled drums be beating On the inside of the shell. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z Before Nathalie could decide whether the couplet meant only to count your threads at night while Polly was far away, the dancers had swung into place and were going through the minuet. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z King Horn is remarkable for its metre—short rhyming couplets, but not in the regular eight-syllable lines which were imitated from the French. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z One homely couplet of the period, referring to Franklin's famous kite, ran in this way: "He with a kite drew lightning from the sky, And like a kite he pecked King George's eye." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Percentage of cases in which the same class of pattern occurs in various couplets of different digits 120 VII. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z She sang a couplet and the others sang in chorus a ritornello. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Unfortunately, without accented letters it is impossible to convey any idea of the melody, the liquid softness, the languor, of some of the couplets. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The French fabliaux, in the ordinary short couplets and without any literary ornament, were absolutely popular; it needed no learning and not much wit to understand them. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z "Oh, it did not spoil my enjoyment," laughed Elsa with pretty assurance, and she piped out the last couplet of her song: "Thrown from the carriage should I be, A flowery grave awaiteth me." Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Three fingers of right hand in 150 fraternal couplets 181 XXV. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z The use of the six-foot Alexandrine couplet may seem to many readers as a thing unknown and unwelcome in English verse. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The chapters on female names, on s�mi, couplets and 'Old Japanese Songs' are more interesting, but only to those who possess a considerable knowledge of old Japanese life and literature.... Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The English short couplets of those days—of the time of Henry III and Edward I—are at no disadvantage as compared with the French. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The professor told me that in his opinion the best elegiac couplet ever written in English was: "Three Patagonian apes with their arms extended akimbo: Three on a rock were they—seedy, but happy withal." A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z Three fingers of right hand in 150 fraternal couplets—resemblance measured on centesimal scale 182 XXVII. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z The short stories, like most of the literature of the time, were composed in octo-syllabic rhyming couplets, verse narratives for minstrels to recite. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z He has love scene, In which they exchange rhymed couplets In Arabian Nights fashion. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The short couplet, the French measure, was indeed capable of almost anything in English, and it was brilliantly used for history by Barbour, and not meanly in the following century by Andrew Wyntoun. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z To this must be added the dreary jingle of the verse, which almost invariably consists of short, rhyming couplets, the lines constantly having to be eked out by expletives and meaningless monosyllables. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z |
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