This allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for longer narrative poems ; and along with the couplet, it was the standard narrative metre in the late Middle Ages.

This literary environment modeled him along the same lines, and he wrote his first Urdu couplet when he was just 8.

99E Business then runs southwest along the Parkway for approximately 3 miles ( 5 km ), then turns south along the Commercial Street / Liberty Street couplet for another 2 miles ( 3 km ).

Within downtown, the four routes remain concurrent along 10th Avenue South to the parallel one-way couplet of 5th and 6th Streets.

Much of what is known as " old time " country music originates from the rhyming couplet style often seen in cowboy poetry along with guitar music.

From there, it runs east for two blocks, along the couplet of Main and Railroad streets, and then turns north and crosses the Willamette River on the historic Oregon City Bridge, entering the city of West Linn.

The pub signs sometimes have an image of a decapitated woman or the couplet: " Here is a woman who has lost her head / She's quiet now — you see she's dead ".

For example, Shakespearean sonnets end with a couplet.

As with the English heroic, each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.

But it is the elegists of the mid-to-late first century BCE who are most commonly associated with the distinctive Roman form of the elegiac couplet.

Since 1600, two successive lines of verse that rhyme with each other, known as a couplet featured as a part of the longer sonnet form, most notably in William Shakespeare's sonnets.

Her best example is in her sequenced sonnet poem entitled Brother and Sister, in which each of the eleven sequenced sonnet ends with a couplet.

During the early 20th century, the rhymed epigram couplet form developed into a fixed verse image form, with an integral title as the third line.

Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, first published in 1915.

In the last decade of the 20th century the American poet Denis Garrison developed a two-line 17 syllable variation of the image couplet with his Crystalline, where euphony is the key component and a title thereto optional.

The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of John Dryden and Alexander Pope.

The looser type of couplet, with occasional enjambment, was one of the standard verse forms in medieval narrative poetry, largely because of the influence of the Canterbury Tales.

For example, a couplet may be two lines with identical meters which rhyme or two lines held together by a common meter alone.

Sonnets are particularly associated with love poetry, and often use a poetic diction heavily based on vivid imagery, but the twists and turns associated with the move from octave to sestet and to final couplet make them a useful and dynamic form for many subjects.

Lovecraft was obsessed with the Arabian Nights and had no doubt read the Fitzgerald translation-the couplet follows Fitzgerald's metre and rhyme pattern for the first half of a Khayyam quatrain.

As with other poetic techniques, poets use it to suit their own purposes ; for example William Shakespeare often used a rhyming couplet to mark off the end of a scene in a play.

Less obvious manifestations of stanzaic form can be found as well, as in Shakespeare's sonnets, which, while printed as whole units in themselves, can be broken into stanzas with the same rhyme scheme followed by a final couplet, as in the example of Sonnet 116:

Given its exposed spot on the top of Stow Hill, the town is often referred to with the couplet " Stow on the Wold, where the winds blow cold and the cooks can't roast their dinners ", but there is no source for this.

In 1965 Tom Lehrer was to celebrate the erotic appeal of the novel in his cheerfully satirical song " Smut " with the couplet " Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?

He prefaced his words with the couplet:

The famous couplet by Ahmad Shah Durrani describes the association the people have with the regional city of Kandahar:

") This rhyming couplet refers comically to the king's complaint in I Samuel 21: 15 that his palace is overrun with madmen.

Upon witnessing this act a couplet broke forth Sage Narada " Enna Davam Saidhanai, Yashoda " which in Tamil literally means: " What penance have You ( Mother Yashoda ) undertaken to be bestowed with the powers to punish the supreme Lord ( Narayana )".

They depart from the Italian sonnet form in closing with a couplet, as is the case with most of the sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, but they have a grace and tenderness all their own.

He became known for a couplet attributed to him: :" As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs

In traditional English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines ( as in distich / couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain / quintain, sestet ).

These political marriages were summed up in the following Latin elegiac couplet: Bella gerant aliī, tū fēlix Austria nūbe / Nam quae Mars aliīs, dat tibi regna Venus, " Let others wage war, but thou, O happy Austria, marry ; for those kingdoms which Mars gives to others, Venus gives to thee.

Found a box under a desk at the New York City headquarters of the Communist Party USA during a transfer of CPUSA archival materials to NYU, the document began with a couplet: " My will is easy to decide / For I have nothing to divide.

This typically involved the recitation of a rhyming couplet, where a shocked person might say ' Jesus who, for love of me / Died on the Cross at Calvary ' instead of ' Jesus!

Sir Walter Scott's famous couplet " Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive!

For example, G. K. Chesterton's poem Lepanto contains the memorable couplet " From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun, / And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.

The Half Man Half Biscuit song ' Uffington Wassail ' includes the couplet " I adventured for a fortnight in the valley of the Rhone / Defied capricious mistrals on which tragedies are blown ".

The Front / Myrtle couplet passes just south of the heart of downtown Boise and connects to Broadway Avenue 1 / 4 mile north of Boise State University.

Entering Lincoln Parish, the highway serves Simsboro and Grambling before entering Ruston ( via West California Avenue ) and multiplexing with US 167 on a north / south couplet of streets ( Vienna Street / Trenton Street ) through the business district.

The link between weather prediction and the day is said to have been inspired by an old Scottish couplet: " If Candlemas Day is bright and clear / There'll be two winters in the year.

Another example of the use of " bit " can be found in the poem " Six-Bits Blues " by Langston Hughes, which includes the following couplet: Gimme six bits ' worth o ' ticket / On a train that runs somewhere ....

However, it was necessary to augment Asher's lyrics with Mike Love's, which include the opening line (" I, I love the colorful clothes she wears ,") the chorus couplet (" I'm pickin ' up good vibrations / She's givin ' me the excitations ") and the two bridges ( the " I don't know where but she sends me there " section, and the " Gotta keep those lovin '- good vibrations happenin ' with her " section.

" The song was called " Bring Our Country Back " and included " alternate " lyrics with the couplet: " Dick Nixon is a decent man / Who can bring our country back.

The classic varve archetype is a light / dark coloured couplet deposited in a glacial lake.

The Columbia River Crossing project would extend from the Expo Center terminus north across the Columbia River to Clark College via Interstate 5, Washington / Broadway Street couplet, and East McLoughlin Blvd.

The title of the book is a play on the last couplet of W. B. Yeats's poem " The Second Coming ": " And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The song's barbed lyric contains a volley of Redneck stereotypes, set to a classic country 3 / 4 time signature and begins with the couplet " He's a drug store truck drivin ' man / He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan.