Question

Which of the following quotations from "The Wife of Bath's Tale" is a couplet?

a. "In honor to us both, I don't care which;/ Whatever pleases you suffices me."
b. "The knight thought long, and with a piteous groan/ At last he said, with all the care in life..."
c. "His heart went bathing in a bath of blisses/ And melted in a hundred thousand kisses..."
d. "May I go howling mad and take my life/ Unless I prove to be as good and true..."

Answer 1

In 'The Wife of Bath's Tale', the couplet can be identified by two consecutive lines of verse that rhyme with each other. Option c is an example of a couplet in the given quotations.

Step-by-step explanation:

In The Wife of Bath's Tale, a couplet is defined as two consecutive lines of verse that rhyme. Looking at the given quotations, option c is a couplet: 'His heart went bathing in a bath of blisses/ And melted in a hundred thousand kisses...' The two lines end with the words 'blisses' and 'kisses,' and the rhyme scheme is AABB, making it a couplet.