Which best defines a couplet? A couplet is a stanza of four poetic lines. A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines. A couplet is three quatrains and two rhyming lines. A couplet is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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The correct answer is option B.
A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
Couplets are extensively used in modern poetry where two sentences of a rhythm are immediately followed by two sentences of a completely different rhythm.
Example -
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see.
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
The second option given above is correct – A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
A couplet refers to ‘two’. In poetry, a couplet is two successive lines which rhyme, following the same meter.
In a poem, if a stanza has two lines, it is a couplet. If there are three lines, it is a tercet and four lines, a quatrain and so on.
In the Shakespearean style of writing sonnets (fourteen lines), the first three stanzas are quatrains and the last is a couplet.