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            • דו-טור
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            • דּוּ-טוּר [בית של שתי שורות נחרזות, ובעיקר שתי השורות הנחרזות החותמות couplet את הסונֵטה השייקספירית] האקדמיה ללשון העברית - by Dana David Kogan
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            • מתוך הבלדה האנגלית-סקוטית, "שתי האחיות" בתרגומו של נתן אלתרמן]. שתים הן אחיות. הן ישבו בחדרן. בא-הגיע פרש, נכבדות דבר בן. הוא שחר הבכירה בצמידים של זהב. אך את זו הצעירה מכל הון הוא אהב. וימר לבכירה. התחמץ לבבה. ותקנה היא בזו אחותה הנאוה. ותאמר הבכירה לצעירה: "לו נצא נא ונראה ספינות-אבא שטות אל הנה". בידה הלבנה כלבנת חבצלת היא אחזה. לנהר היא אותה מובלת. - ויקיפדיה by Dana David Kogan
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            • couplet
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            • A couplet is a stanza (or even a poem) consisting of two lines. These need not rhyme, nor be the same length, but can be. If there is no enjambment at the end of the second line, it can be called a closed couplet (the opposite being an open couplet), especially if this is a recurring pattern. The Poetry Archive
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            • Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. - Wikipedia
            • Elaine Feinstein's 'Urban Lyric' has an individual aspect of the scene in each couplet, each of which is linked, however, to the adjacent aspects. - The Poetry Archive
            • Elementary students rhyme, write couplets, make and paint clay pumpkins, and write pumpkin poems during a reading lesson about The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin. - suite101.com
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    • Hungarian
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            • Sorpár
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            • A minimális versszak a sorpár. Kedvelt volt a régi angol irodalomban, a Shakespeare-szonett végén is szerepel; a magyar irodalomban Juhász Gyula alkalmazta előszeretettel. Sajátos sorpár a disztichon és az epodus (két különböző hosszúságú, pl. 6-os és 4-es jambikus sor, ld. Horatius verseit), de ezek általában nem képeznek önmagukban versszakot. Kultúrális enciklopédia - by Eva H.
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            • Hálót fon az est, a nagy barna pók, Nem mozdulnak a tiszai hajók. Juhász Gyula: Tiszai csönd - Kultúrális enciklopédia by Eva H.
            • Előttetek egy ember ment el S utánatok is jön egy ember Bölcs szivekkel örvendezzetek És siessetek, siessetek József Attila :Tanítások - Kortárs by Eva H.
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    • Chinese
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            • 对句。对联。联句
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            • "Couplet" is episode 14 of season 3 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel episodes for a complete list. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet (Angel episode) In poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couplet pair of rhymed lines, often used as a way of rounding off a sonnet; hence the term ‘closing couplet’. labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php a pair of lines rhyming consecutively. home.cfl.rr.com/eghsap/apterms.html/ Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/languagearts/reading/07/March%20Reading%20Glossary.doc two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. shs.msdpt.k12.in.us/staff/hdrummond/documents/GlossaryofPoetricTerms.doc a pair of rhymed lines containing a complete thought academics.hamilton.edu/english/ckodat/150Wlitterm.html two-line stanza triplet: three-line stanza quatrain: four-line stanza quintet: five-line stanza sestet: six-line stanza septet: seven-line stanza octave: eight-line stanza mail.baylorschool.org/~jstover/toolbox/poetry.html The two roadways of a divided highway, named differently, approximately parallel with traffic flow in opposite directions and separated by ... www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/asset_mgmt/AssetMgmtTermsAndDefinitions.shtml A pair of lines of verse of the same length that usually rhymes. www.kahnwithak.com/poetry_terms.htm a rhymed pair of lines, which are usually of the same length. If these are iambic pentameters it is termed a heroic couplet. This form was made popular by Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and became the dominant poetic form in the latter part of the seventeenth century. ... www.geocities.com/razifs_storage1/glossary.html a pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter www.bv229.k12.ks.us/bvn_mworthington/AP%20Toolbox/literaryterms.htm a two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines. research.uvsc.edu/mortensen/2250/assignments/poetryvocab.html A pair of layers, usually in an alternating series. Couplets presumably represent alternating conditions of precipitation, as may occur where climate is highly seasonal (ie, alternating from a very wet to a very dry season or very warm to very warm season). www.gly.uga.edu/speleoatlas/SAglossary1.html Two lines of poetry that have the same meter, and rhyme scheme. Example: I'm being driven up the WALL I need to make a phone CALL. D library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/definitions.html a pair of rhyming lines with identical meter. www.ffl.msu.ru/img/pages/File/UK_literature.doc a pair of rhyming verse lines wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/130/133428/glossary.html A pair of lines that rhyme with each other. www.benybont.co.uk/triolet/terms.htm two successive lines of poetry www.iclasses.org/assets/literature/literary_glossary.cfm a stanza of two rhyming lines; especially, such lines of the same length, as "The learn'd is happy nature to explore, / The fool is happy that he knows no more" (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man). www.nde.state.ne.us/READ/FRAMEWORK/glossary/general_a-e.html Two lines of poetry with the same rhyme and meter, often expressing a complete and self-contained thought. The following couplet is from Alexander Pope's "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady": 'Tis Use alone that sanctifies Expense, And Splendour borrows all her rays from Sense. www.novelguide.com/a/discover/dfs_0000_0023_0/dfs_0000_0023_0_00026.html paired lines of verse, often rhyming. www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp Google Definition - by IC --
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            • This antithetical couplet is my father's handwriting. 这幅对联是父亲的亲笔。 heroic couplet 英雄偶句诗体(互相押韵的两行诗) "Trite as the language is, this couplet has deep significance,"thought Yucun. " "雨村看了,因想到:""这两句话,文虽浅近,其意则深" - jukuu by IC --
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            • dístico
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            • Os dísticos operam segmentações dentro dos poemas, dando-lhes certa autonomia em relação ao todo, embora haja um fio condutor, em alguns casos quase imperceptível, que costura com pontos largos o módulo. - Jornal de Poesia by Paula Vaz-Carreiro
            • Os versos que às vezes compomos, ou que aprendemos na escola, com nossos amigos, nas festas populares da nossa comunidade, são poemas conhecidos como trovas, e geralmente têm uma rima forte e quatro versos; versos são cada uma das linhas que compõem o poema. Durante a história do homem, diversas foram as formas poéticas que ele inventou para expressar sua poesia. Uma das mais conhecidas é o soneto (1. Composição poética de 14 versos, dispostos ou em dois quartetos e dois tercetos (soneto italiano, o mais cultivado) ou em três quartetos e um dístico (soneto inglês).[Alguns poetas (Luís Delfino, p. ex., no Brasil) apresentam sonetos em que os tercetos vêm em primeiro lugar. ] como no exemplo do belo poema de Camões que você já leu acima. - pte.futuro.usp.br by Paula Vaz-Carreiro
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            • δίστιχο
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            • Δίστιχο ονομάζεται ένας συνδυασμός δυο στίχων, με ομοιοκαταληξία ή χωρίς, που συνηθίζεται σε παλαιότερες μορφές ποίησης, όπως η δημοτική ποίηση, η κρητική ποίηση και οι αμανέδες. PEGAS - by Maria Pentsa
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            • Στην ποίηση του Στέφανου Σαχλίκη συναντάμε την πρώτη χρήση της ομοιοκαταληξίας στην νεοελληνική λογοτεχνία: κάποια ποιήματά του αποτελούνται από ενότητες τεσσάρων ή και περισσότερων ομοιοκατάληκτων στίχων, ενώ σε άλλα εμφανίζονται ενότητες ομοιοκατάληκτων διστίχων. Στον 14ο και τον 15ο αι. τα ομοιοκατάληκτα συνυπήρχαν με τα ανομοιοκατάληκτα έργα, ενώ από τον 16ο αιώνα κυριάρχησε η ομοιοκαταληξία με βασική οργανωτική μονάδα το ομοιοκατάληκτο δίστιχο. - Wikipedia by Maria Pentsa
            • Στην αρχή του αμανέ οι λέξεις αφού χωρίζονται σε φθόγγους και συλλαβές με παρατεταμένη κλιμάκωση και ποικιλία εκφώνησης, έτσι που μόλις ένα δίστιχο να χρειάζεται πέντε λεπτά της ώρας για να αποδοθεί, στη συνέχεια αρχίζει η επανάληψη πάλι του ίδιου διστίχου σε ταχύτερο ρυθμό με συνοδεία και άλλων αμανετζήδων όπου και οι λέξεις πλέον γίνονται κατανοητές. - Wikipedia by Maria Pentsa
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