To see the desired glossary, please select the language and then the field of expertise.

    Home
    • Macedonian
      • Poetry & Literature
        • Search
          • Term
            • двостих
          • Definition(s)
            • Двостихот е структура составена од два последователни стиха кои образуваат една заокружена смисловна целина. Двата стиха може да бидат дел од поголема строфа, или пак сами по себе да формираат една строфа. Own research - by English knight
          • Example sentence(s)
            • Ниту во природата не постојат два исти листа, па и во Круна на секој лист песните ги менуваат облиците, од двостих, речиси гномски или графитерски карактер, до прозни записи, до упатници, реченици, писма. - Блесок by English knight
          • Related KudoZ question
    Compare [close]
    • English
      • Poetry & Literature
        • Search
          • Term
            • couplet
          • Definition(s)
            • 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
          • Example sentence(s)
            • 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
    Compare [close]
    • Chinese
      • Poetry & Literature
        • Search
          • Term
            • 对句。对联。联句
          • Definition(s)
            • "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 --
          • Example sentence(s)
            • 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 --
          • Related KudoZ question
    Compare [close]
    • Swedish
      • Poetry & Literature
        • Search
          • Term
            • Rimmat verspar
          • Definition(s)
            • Rimmat verspar - engelska "couplet" - är en tvåradig strof med utbredd användning i fransk och framför allt engelsk lyrik där diktformen etablerades på 1300-talet av Chaucer i Canterbury Tales. Drygt 200 år senare använde sig Shakespeare av det rimmade versparet för att avrunda sina sonetter såväl som att nå effekt i skådespelen. Den mest använda formen av det rimmade versparet är den femfotade jambiska versen. Det rimmade versparet har inte använts i större utsträckning i svensk diktning där i stället andra former av rytm och meter föredragits. Own research - by Anna Herbst
          • Example sentence(s)
            • Ty inga älskande ha lidit så Som Julia och hennes Romeo. Akt V Scen 3 William Shakespeare: Romeo och Julia - Full text of "Shakespeares dramatiska ar by Anna Herbst
            • Ska jag vid sommardagen likna dig du ljuvligare är - mer tempererad majs skira knoppar slits av bister vind och sommarns hyra, den är slutreglerad För hett ibland kan himlens öga skina och ofta skymd är hennes gyllne hy allt som är vackert ska en gång förtvina av ödet brytas, allt är dömt att fly. men din sommars skönhet vissnar ej förlorar inte glansen som du bär och dödens skryt ska aldrig träffa dig eviga rader i min dikt du är Så länge män kan andas, ögon se ska detta leva kvar och liv dig ge. Shakespeare: Sonett 18 Översättning: Eva Ström - Evas dröm by Anna Herbst
          • Related KudoZ question
    Compare [close]
    • German
      • Poetry & Literature
        • Search
          • Term
            • Couplet
          • Definition(s)
            • Das Couplet (frz. „couplet“: Zeilenpaar) bezeichnet in der Dichtung ein Paar gereimter [?*] Vers-Zeilen. In der Musik ist es ein mehrstrophiges witzig-zweideutiges, politisches oder satirisches Lied mit markantem Refrain. […] Ausgehend vom lateinischen copula = Verbindung sind die altfranzösischen Worte cople oder couple (spanisch copla) seit dem ausgehenden 12. Jahrhundert für die Verbindung von Reimpaaren zur Strophe eines Gedichtes oder Liedes belegt; in der Troubadour-Lyrik ist Couplet die Bezeichnung für Strophe schlechthin. Seit dem 17. Jahrhundert bekam Couplet die allmähliche Bedeutungseinschränkung auf eine Strophe heiteren Inhalts. Im Rondeau der französischen Instrumentalmusik des 17./18. Jahrhunderts sind Couplets die wechselnden Abschnitte zwischen Refrain oder Reprise (auch grand couplet). Wikipedia - by Anja C.
          • Example sentence(s)
            • [317] Couplet (franz., spr. kuplē, v. lat. copula), ursprünglich in der Musik und Poesie die Verbindung zweier paralleler rhythmischer Sätze zu einer Strophe; jetzt gewöhnlich die Bezeichnung für gewisse, in modernen Possen und Vaudevilles vorkommende komische Lieder, deren Strophen nach einer Melodie gesungen werden und in einem witzigen Refrain zu endigen pflegen. - Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon by Anja C.
            • Als Couplet werden häufig auch Zeilen bezeichnet, die einen vollständigen Gedanken ausdrücken oder eine eigene Strophe bilden. Im altfranzösischen Minnesang wurde die Strophe grundsätzlich als Couplet bezeichnet. Englische Bühnendichter wie Shakespeare, Marlowe und Donne entwickelten das so genannte heroische Couplet, das vor allem im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert verwendet wurde. Couplets in Alexandrinern findet man sowohl in französischen Erzählungen und Dramenversen, beispielsweise bei Corneille, Racine, Molière und La Fontaine als auch in der deutschen und niederländischen Dichtung des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Im modernen Sprachgebrauch wird als Couplet gemeinhin ein satirisch-scherzhaftes, oft zweideutig-frivoles Lied in der komischen Oper, in der Operette oder im Vaudeville bezeichnet, dessen Strophen durch Kehrreim verbunden sind. - MSN Encarta by Anja C.
          • Related KudoZ question
    Compare [close]
    • Dutch
      • Poetry & Literature
        • Search
          • Term
            • (tweeregelige) strofe of distichon
          • Definition(s)
            • "Strofe - Een bepaald aantal als groep bij elkaar geplaatste regels van een gedicht, te vergelijken met het couplet in een lied en met de alinea in een prozatekst: distichon: twee versregels" Meander - "Klassiekers" - by Sabine Piens
          • Example sentence(s)
            • "Gilliams wees reeds op de verwantschap, die Sous les ponts de Paris vertoont met het, eveneens in tweeregelige strofen geschreven, Christusgedicht van de in deze tijd door Van Ostaijen zo bewonderde Blaise Cendrars: Les Pâques à New York" - Dig. Bibliotheek voor de Ned. Letteren by Sabine Piens
            • "(...) De verklaring voor deze metaforische 'kettingreactie' biedt zich aan in de drie tweeregelige strofen in het midden van het gedicht. (...)" - Neerlandistiek.nl by Sabine Piens
          • Related KudoZ question
  • Compare this term in: Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Spanish, Persian (Farsi), Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian

The glossary compiled from Glossary-building KudoZ is made available openly under the Creative Commons "By" license (v3.0). By submitting this form, you agree to make your contribution available to others under the terms of that license.

Creative Commons License