Question

Which best defines a couplet

Answer 1

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Answer 2

A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.

Step-by-step explanation:

Couplets illustrate the two successive lines with the same rhyme, rhythm, length or meter. They are further classified as open as closed couplets. So, it is basically a pair of two lines with the same rhyme scheme. In literature, we have witnessed Shakespeare having an obsession with the use of couplets. For example:

1. "Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,

being had, to triumph; being lacked, to scope".(Sonnet 52)

2. "I thank you for this profit and from hence,

I'll love no friend since love breeds such offence".(Othello)