A paid-up trey of two hundred francs will give three millions, without counting the couplets and the singles.
Whereupon he pulled out three hundred dinars and laying them before me, said, "I beseech thee to accept these and compose me an air to two couplets I have made.
I have heard great store of women's verses; but none pleased me save three sets of couplets I once heard from three girls.
Finally I print the couplets in Arab form separating the hemistichs by asterisks.
Thereupon Hasan shut himself up and composed these couplets on a solid base and abounding in inner grace and copied them out in a handwriting of the nicest taste.
The King admired and praised the two couplets and said to him, "Quote something else; Allah bless thy sire and may thy tongue never tire!
This line, the iambic tetrameter, is a favourite one, with many writers of English verse, and has been much used, both in couplets and in stanzas.
In some very ancient English poetry, we find lines of twelve syllables combined incouplets with others of fourteen; that is, six iambic feet are alternated with seven, in lines that rhyme.
Mr. Morris had told a classical tale in decasyllabic couplets of the Chaucerian sort, and he regarded the heroic age from a mediaeval point of view; at all events, not from an historical and archaeological point of view.
But, at best, how different are his angry couplets from the lofty melancholy of Johnson's satires!
Ordinary narrative poems with no satiric intent were decked in Hudibrastic coupletsfor the sake of a superficial cleverness.
Many editors are glad to buy quatrains and even couplets to fill out a page when a longer form would be rejected.
Any one who has had a high-school course in Latin can experiment with Virgil, turning it either intocouplets like Pope's Iliad or into the more appropriate meter used by Longfellow in his Evangeline.
There are little dimeter couplets like Herrick's: "There thou shalt be High priest to me.
With The Kasidah we shall deal in a later chapter, for though Burton wrote a few couplets at this time, the poem did not take its present shape till after the appearance of FitzGerald's adaptation of The Rubaiyat Oman Khayyam.
Two of the couplets flash with auroral splendour, and of all the vast amount of metrical work that Burton accomplished, these are the only lines that can be pronounced imperishable.
One of his couplets on good and bad fortune is striking; "The fortune of men is like a sand-glass; one hour up, the next down.
The inscription is incomplete and the above is the plain interpretation which can be given to the coupletsthat are to hand.
It opens with a masnawi of 41 couplets which is followed by a ghazel and numerous poems in several measures, down to a triad of rhymed couplets (matla'?
Over his tomb Lorenzo de' Medici caused a monument to be erected, and Poliziano wrote Latin couplets to commemorate the fame of the friar-painter.
The above distinction was suggested to me by the simple fact, that Chaucer cannot be proved to have used his couplets till he was well advanced in composition.
Nearly all of Chaucer's tales that are in stanzas are early, whilst all that are in decasyllabic couplets are late.
Two couplets are at times linked together into a quatrain.
In truth, the ten-syllabled line, in couplets or in blank verse, though best adapted for grave subjects, has been employed on almost all themes by English poets.
As exemplifying both such accent and pause in the seven-syllabled line, the following couplets may be cited from Cowley.
The lines will come well in after the coupletsconcerning Naldi and Catalani!
Crabbe's poems are the latest to use the strict Popean couplet for narrative and descriptive purposes, and his couplets have a certain characteristic reticence and vigor.
Where this was the case there was a tendency toward the breaking up of the verse into a quatrain of verses in four and three stresses, riming abab; such septenaries, indeed, were written at pleasure either in couplets or quatrains.
The use of rimed couplets in Shakspere's dramas is especially characteristic of his earlier work.
In the following table the figures regarding the couplets of Spenser are based on his Mother Hubbard's Tale; those relating to Joseph Hall, on the Satires of his Virgidemiarum (see p.
So far as this antithetical quality of Jonson's verse is concerned, Professor Schelling's view cannot be questioned; but that Jonson shows any singular preference for end-stopped lines and couplets may be seriously questioned.
The avoidance of enjambement is not mentioned, doubtless because it is assumed as an essential of coupletsprofessing any degree of correctness.
Compare the coupletsof even so romantic a poet as Marlowe, in the specimen given above from Hero and Leander.
There is an account of a singer and his wife who were to sing a number of humorous couplets at a restaurant in Leipsic.
The wife made her appearance there at the appointed hour, but, owing to the unexplained absence of her husband, she was compelled to amuse the visitors by singing couplets alone.
This he brought out again in 1661, with the dialogue recast into riming couplets in the French fashion.
It established blank verse, with occasional riming couplets at the close of a scene or of a long speech, as the language of the tragedy and high comedy parts, and prose as the language of the low comedy and "business" parts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couplets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
