Difference between couplet and pararhyme
couplet
Definitions
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
Examples
At every halting place the natives capered before them and tabored a welcome, while at Kama, where Gelele was staying, they not only played, but burst out with an extemporaneous couplet in Burton's honour:
According to this interpretation, the phrase “the nature of the divine and the good” refers simply to a characteristic that is attributed to Pyrrho, and labeled by poetic hyperbole as ˜divine™, in another fragment of Timon, namely his extraordinary tranquillity; the couplet as a whole, then, is saying that tranquillity is the source of an even-tempered life.
Then Nur al-Din bowed his head, and made these couplets,
