How To Use Couplet In A Sentence
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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:
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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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.
Picnic
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Then Nur al-Din bowed his head, and made these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then they returned to Dunyazad and displayed her in the fifth dress and in the sixth, which was green, when she surpassed with her loveliness the fair of the four quarters of the world and outvied, with the brightness of her countenance, the full moon at rising tide; for she was even as saith of her the poet in these couplets122: —
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Will stop now as the third couplet is even worse, and wouldn’t wish to give offence.
En français
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An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
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No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense of his original.
Early Theories of Translation
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This form of poetry comprising more than a dozen couplets in the same metre has come a long way and so have ghazal singers.
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The remaining stanzas discard the scheme of triple rhymes in favour of rhymed couplets, while the last two lines use assonance instead of rhyme and are, moreover, catalectic:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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As a side note, Michael Sorkin later wrote a withering review of the The Charlottesville Tapes that took the form of a short play, with all dialog rendered in perfectly rhyming couplets.
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Couplets contain two lines with ending words rhyming.
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And whilst each one hent bunch in hand, the gardener brought the wine-service and setting it before them, on a tray of porcelain arabesqued with red gold, recited these two couplets,
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The lines are half of four couplets in vol.iv. 192; so I quote Lane.
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Branca agreed; and thus the book reveals that "ever since, even as the goat endured public discourteousness for 60 years, he praised God, reciting every morning and night the "Our Father," a "Hail Mary" and a couplet of his own: "Make me worthy of your love; make my love worthy of you.
Rabbi Joshua Hess: Ralph Branca: A Tale Of Two Faiths
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It's a vote for a smoother, wittier, more stylish world than the one we've landed up with: the chink of glass against glass, the sharp flare of trumpets, the devastating couplet and the clutch of hand on hip.
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His surviving poems are all written in elegiac couplets, with the exception of the Metamorphoses, which is in hexameters.
Letter 56
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In the Anthology there occurs this couplet: [10] {Pan to peritton axaipon epei logos esti palaios os xai tou melitos to pleon esti khole}
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way).
Still Lives
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Couplet is the exquisite article of folk-custom culture, which is used to celebrate, decorate and express self-cultivation . Li's couplet reflect his mind and value.
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Some investigators believe the laminated clays are varves and that each couplet represents one year of seasonal deposition.
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There she found the wax-candles lighted and the Princess Hayat al-Nufus seated and awaiting her; whereupon she bethought her of her husband and what had betided them both of sorrow and severance in so short a space; she wept and sighed and groaned groan upon groan, and began improvising these couplets,
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Many primary grade pupils enjoy rhyme in a couplet when writing poetry.
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The couplets of invitatory and collect which occur in the Roman Good Friday service are given with verbal variations in the Gothicum; in both, however, there are other prayers of a similar type and prayers for some of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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His sixty-four lines of rhyming hendecasyllabic couplets are juxtaposed with a considerably briefer fifty-three lines of English free verse.
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The narrative is in octosyllabic couplets until the fox gets busy and then it becomes mere fluid.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As the Arabs ignore blank verse, when we come upon a rhymeless couplet we know that it is an extract from a longer composition in monorhyme.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Its graceful pentameter couplets express the mid-century fascination with theatrical performance.
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It's hard to fluff the couplet unless you're dealing solely in abstractions, which should be a warning about the abstractions that too often pass here for reasoning.
What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici
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Through alliteration, anaphora, parallelism and slant-rhyme, Sleigh builds momentum into the eleven, rhythmic couplets and suggests a train's smooth travel.
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Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance.
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Presently, one of her maids brought her a silken bag, which she opened and taking thereout a lute, laid it in her lap and smote its strings, whereat it complained as child complaineth to mother, and she sang these two couplets,
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He takes a little minuet on a journey ‘through contrapuntal couplets, canons and inversions beore breaking into romantic rhapsodising’.
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In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole.
Masters of the Guild
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The stanza's concluding couplet, however, with its assertion that "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud" (55-56), signals that the process of self-forgetting is not complete.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
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This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénaults Abrégé Chronologique, and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.
Quotations
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Misrá‘ah or hemistich is half the “Bayt” which, for want of a better word, I have rendered couplet: this, however, though formally separated in Mss., is looked upon as one line, one verse; hence a word can be divided, the former part pertaining to the first and the latter to the second moiety of the distich.
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Written in heroic couplets, many are elegies or stress the theme of Christian salvation.
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This all importantp channelise to blacken suede cloth boots are specifically for those fashionistas seeking a capital couplet that leave body of work for casual with casual charm and beauty. clean up your darling and take the air on!
Warning: Slant-Eye Alert
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The following weekend I burned the midnight oil translating one of the eclogues into rhymed couplets for the following week.
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The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster.
A Study of Shakespeare
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The process of developing it into the representative pseudo-classical measure of Dryden and Pope consisted in making the lines, or at least the couplets, generally end-stopt, and in securing a general regular movement, mainly by eliminating pronounced pauses within the line, except for the frequent organic cesura in the middle.
A History of English Literature
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The effect of the triplet is the same: the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet; but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together, to which the reader could not accommodate his voice, did he not obtain notice of the change from the braces of the margins.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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So he took the lute and swept the strings, and by Allah, I fancied they spoke in Arabic tongue, with a sweet and liquid and murmurous voice; then he began and sang these couplets,
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Whatever you tried to do, there was a bar that didn't scan, a couplet that you just couldn't find a rhyme for.
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In 1705 he published The Campaign, a poem in heroic couplets in celebration of the victory of Blenheim.
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In the original languages, the ghazal is a highly rhymed form, but the English version as we know it now refuses the rhyming couplet.
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“Klage”, a poem written in short rhyming couplets.
The Nibelungenlied
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Most of the poems employ the forms of the sonnet, rhymed couplets, and ballad stanzas, and most were composed while Cullen was an undergraduate at New York University.
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That's to say, his poems build displacement into their structures: they move forward in discrete couplet and triplet units, they offer small bright pleasures and ask us to pass on quickly.
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The quatrain is followed by a couplet forming a refrain, also with four stresses.
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Both rely heavily on rhyme, favoring couplets but committed to casual or accidental placement rather than to any definite scheme.
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At each sample site, the least diagenetically modified, coarser grained sediments from laminae of dune couplets were selected for analysis.
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The story is written in rhyming couplets, which adds a nice touch.
Bedtime Book: The Eleventh Hour « A Working Title
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The key aspects of this allegorization are suggested, or indeed inscribed, in the inscription, itself already allegorizing the materiality of inscription and the material carpentry of inscription of the couplet just cited in Plate 6.
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
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The lyrics are unostentatious and the imagery is stark - the personal opens up into the universal thanks to Bickford's suggestive, elliptical couplets.
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Then she took her lute and, preluding thereon in manifold modes, lastly returned to the first and sang these couplets,
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As luck would have it, on this day Tai-jui was, on account of business, compelled to go home; and having left them as a task no more than a heptameter line for an antithetical couplet, explaining that they should find a sentence to rhyme, and that the following day when he came back, he would set them their lessons, he went on to hand the affairs connected with the class to his elder grandson,
Hung Lou Meng
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She even made a placard written in calligraphy and in faultless rhyming couplets denouncing the union.
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Built from five unrhymed couplets, the poem is a ladder up the page, suggesting that the ladder is a metaphor for the poem itself.
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Answer everyone in rhyme, to make heroic couplets.
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Most of the poems employ the forms of the sonnet, rhymed couplets, and ballad stanzas, and most were composed while Cullen was an undergraduate at New York University.
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So the Minister chanted in modulated song these couplets,
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One after another, they strode the dais and cracked their favourite jokes and recited couplets.
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The source texts are then reformed into single aphoristic lines, couplets, quatrains, and whole poems.
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The source texts are then reformed into single aphoristic lines, couplets, quatrains, and whole poems.
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Fisher arranges the lines into 6 couplets and a tercet, a variation on the form known as the couplet sonnet.
A Good Hanukkah Poem for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The metrical scheme is an illustration of 'duplication' applied to antistrophic structure: a quatrain question (strophe 1) has a couplet answer (strophe 2); then the quatrain is duplicated into an octet
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
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I think that last couplet's daring use of metre is the high point of the poem, but you can find the concluding four lines at McGonagall Online.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Ending in a syntactic and rhythmic pause . Used of a line of verse or a couplet.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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“Gentle Shepherd,” a couplet, which he right happily transferred from the vice of avarice to that of ebriety:
The Black Dwarf
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Single couplets of course form a significant category, as do longer poems composed of rhyming pentameter couplets.
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Most poems are odes or odes-in-spirit that marvel at the qualities of a creature in couplet quatrains or another traditional form.
2009 September 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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From this kind of concatenated metre he afterwards refrained, and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets; which has, perhaps, been with rather too much constancy pursued.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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This is a textbook example of a parallelistic couplet, with a mirror chiasmus. is parallel to.
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But how can I explain these allusions or how can I translate these couplets without explanation?
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Thus the sonnet, which had been an octave of enclosed or alternate rhymes, followed by a sestette of interlaced tercets, was now changed to a series of three quatrains with differing sets of alternate rhymes in each, at the close of which the insidious couplet succeeded in establishing itself.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
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The poem can utilize any poetic form (haiku, rhyming couplets, limerick, free verse, etc.) but it cannot exceed six lines (LeBron's jersey is #6).
John Lundberg: Enduring the LeBron James Poetry Contest
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He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture.
Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis
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It closes a couplet and rhimes to a complete dissyllable in one of the most finishd productions of one of our most correct poets in the mechanism of versification.
Letter 111
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Reinhardt describes himself as someone whose goal is to “break the bonds twixt world and dream,” and “Afterlife” obliges him by turning his own story into an “Everyman” drama, a consideration of the transience of life and the inevitably of death, often delivered in rhymed couplets.
London Theater Journal: ‘Afterlife’ is a Rare Misfire from Michael Frayn - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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His four-line verses or quatrains, each of two rhymed couplets, were written in groups of 100, known as Centuries.
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The forms I choose for my poems can be found in contemporary American poetry: prose poems, free verse, couplets, sonnets, found texts, and direct narratives.
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The poem, in pentameter couplets, describes the funeral ceremonies for Queen Mary the preceding month.
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I curled up with Nash's couplets, quatrains, limericks and occasional jeremiads.
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At the entrance to the road to the furthest hill stands a big bluestone tablet on which is incised, ‘Ancient Longzhong’ with a couplet on both sides.
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One was more inclined to rhyming couplets and to hypermetric verse.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.
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Both albums are rife with lyrical references to rolling hills, trees, creeks, dirty knees and breezes, and delivered in direct couplets or simply rhymed tercets.
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I'm not referring here to fidgeting uncomfortably while an unseasoned actor lurches turgidly through thousands of rhyming couplets.
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He is remembered chiefly for his topographical poem in tetrameter couplets, Grongar Hill, which describes the scenery of the river Towy.
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The end-stopped couplets of ‘Manufacturing’ dissect and examine visual experience, comparing its snapshot moments to the uneasy ongoingness of thought, hearing, and recollection.
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There are so many rhyming couplets, which lends itself to rap, and so much punning and wordplay, which are the same tools that hip-hop uses.
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These characters include the whole time occupied by each verse of the stanza, the relative values of acatalectic and catalectic verses occurring within the same stanza structure, differences in rhythmical melody between the latter forms, the variations of average intensity in the accentual elements of such lines, and a determination of the values of rests of higher and lower degrees -- mid-line, verse, and couplet pauses -- which appear in the various stanza forms, and their relation to other structural elements.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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Lord," and contemplate the following couplet which one cannot make rhyme without actual verbicide: --
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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But she had always thought of this collection of abstruse couplets and quatrains as completely aethereal, having no relation to ordinary people or ordinary events.
Antony and Cleopatra
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He proved that his seemingly limited minuet couplet could, in its own special way, undertake the epical.
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Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets.
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It's a concentrated, half-hour shot of intense guitar noise and clever-clever couplets.
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Presumably to save space, verse is cited in two parallel columns, read across rather than down, with the effect that ‘The Character of a Happy Life’ appears at first glance to be written in obscure couplets rather than limpid quatrains.
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He remembered that she had frequently been in receipt of printed elegaic couplets known as "mottoes," containing enclosures equally saccharine.
Tales of the Argonauts
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She even made a placard written in calligraphy and in faultless rhyming couplets denouncing the union.
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Duchesses, the most delicate and charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the following, addressed to “the federates”: —
Les Miserables
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A previous couplet from Brook's 'Grantchester' - now the home of Ld Archer
Rye Recollections
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Over the course of the year, he filled it with couplets and verse that were printed out and given to his employees as a gift.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was translated into English iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets.
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The male loudsong is a loud series of paired couplets, all notes having a distinctly twangy quality.
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I appreciate the implication that these small couplets are the only inoculation against certain death that kids have in their defensive arsenal -- and that the rhyme is a lesson hard-learned, acquired from the corpses of generations.
Dead Silence
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The i iconoscope tiredness natation automaton a obsessionally and judicial couplet in the preceptor of watermeal and in the trompillo of the rathole.
Rational Review
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I curled up with Nash's couplets, quatrains, limericks and occasional jeremiads.
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Thayer tells Casey’s story in rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter, a nearly obsolete verse form known as the fourteener because a line typically has 14 syllables or seven iambic feet.
2007 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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I curled up with Nash's couplets, quatrains, limericks and occasional jeremiads.
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These lines are in fact the final couplets from five sonnets in Benson's 1640 edition of Shakespeare's poems.
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He fits the description of a Romantic Poet perfectly, wandering dazed by nature and inactivity through sun-dappled fields, his sad eyes melting before the passionate couplets forming in the wellspring of his engorged imagination.
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Of this epitaph the first couplet is good, the second not bad, the third is deformed with a broken metaphor, the word crowned not being applicable to the honours or the lays, and the fourth is not only borrowed from the epitaph on Raphael, but of a very harsh construction.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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The concluding couplet of this stanza tells us what the nativity will do by systematically listing the state of things before the birth and the conditions brought into the world by it.
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A. 2.p. 242), we find that either line of the couplet is shortened by a foot; it is, therefore, majzú.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The emotional couplet thus produced combines furious glee and abject melancholy, helpless vulnerability and unfocused rage.
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Sonnet 126 is, unusually, a poem in six rhymed couplets rather than a sonnet proper.
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Smith's ‘illegitimate’ sonnet consists of three elegiac quatrains and a couplet, thus combining both English elegiac meters.
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Single couplets of course form a significant category, as do longer poems composed of rhyming pentameter couplets.
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In her rapid-fire Indonesian with distinct Chinese intonations, she quoted an old Chinese couplet that says, ‘In heaven there is paradise, on earth there is Hangzhou and Suzhou.’
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The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
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Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly, not to say burlesquely, and almost as in a medley, from this couplet to --
Biographia Literaria
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Jaques's assertion of the presence of the object world as a link to the past and a means to achieve wholeness in the present is echoed in her conventional poetics, dominated by her preference for rhyming couplets and quatrains.
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This sets the stage for a listing of stanzaic forms moving from the couplet, through the tercet to finally arriving at the ode and unusual forms such as the sequidilla and the haiku, etc.
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
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Shakespearean rhyming couplets have been adapted for rap with an on-stage DJ scratching, beatboxing and grooving right along with the performers.
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The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster.
A Study of Shakespeare
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There are varied poetic forms, including narratives, jazz poems, slam poems, sestina, haiku, couplets and sonnets.
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He issued in 1715 the first volume of his translation in heroic couplets of Homer's Iliad.
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The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
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The key aspects of this allegorization are suggested, or indeed inscribed, in the inscription, itself already allegorizing the materiality of inscription and the material carpentry of inscription of the couplet just cited in Plate 6.
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
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This couplet sufficiently explains the ground of his adscription to the society of gods distinguished for their beauty.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
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It is composed in fluent, almost chatty couplets, with marvellous evocations of the deserted Venetian lido and twinkling lagoon: 'I love all waste / And solitary places; where we taste / The pleasure of believing what we see / Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.'
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This phenomenon is, of course, ultimately intangible, irreducible to any given couplet or guitar line.
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His impeccable couplets have eroded over time and been fragmented into authorless pearls of wisdom.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The folk rejoiced in her song with exceeding joy and my gladness redoubled, so that I took the lute from the damsel and preluding after the most melodious fashion, sang these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It is an allegory written, with the exception of a few heroic couplets, in the seven-line stanza known as rime royal, and consists of nearly six thousand lines in forty-five divisions or chapters.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Then she strained the lute to her bosom, bending over it as mother bendeth over babe, and swept the strings which complained as child to mother complaineth; after which she played upon it and began improvisng these couplets,
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The wasteful Burnside-Couch traffic "couplet" is having a "groundbreaking" tomorrow afternoon -- at least, the east side section of it.
New money pit to open (Jack Bog's Blog)
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‘With pleasure,’ said I, and playing another measure in masterly fashion, sang thereto these couplets,
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And I repeated it; whereupon my cousin swooned again, and when she came to herself, she recited these two couplets,
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This couplet, which appears by itself rather than as the conclusion of a longer passage, forms the final two lines of the second canto.
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“Lord,” and contemplate the following couplet which one cannot make rhyme without actual verbicide: ” “Where feeds the moose, and walks the surly bear,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first couplet, known as the refrain, is repeated at the end.
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When she had made an end of combing it, she plaited my tresses, and my beauty and loveliness charmed her; so she bent over me and kissed my cheek. 334 At that moment he came in unawares, and, seeing the girl kiss my cheek, straightways turned away in anger, vowing eternal-separation and repeating these two couplets,
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The lines form couplets joined in quatrains.
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Through alliteration, anaphora, parallelism and slant-rhyme, Sleigh builds momentum into the eleven, rhythmic couplets and suggests a train's smooth travel.
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Then they returned to Dunyazade and displayed her in the fifth dress and in the sixth, which was green, when she surpassed with her loveliness the fair of the four quarters of the world, and outvied with the brightness of her countenance the full moon at rising tide, for she was even as saith of her the poet in these couplets:
Tehran Winter
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The couplets are linked by the repetition of their first lines and the assonance occurring in ‘flag’ and ‘map.’
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The verses of the Irish chapbooks are all in couplets but, in using the ‘liberty’ line, a pair of couplets is transformed into a triplet plus an isolated line.
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(The first couplet is by Roger Boyle, the Earl of Orrery, 1621-79, and the second by the ever-great Anonymous.)
Author, author: Nick Laird
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That first couplet is too perfect for explanation.
The Poet Alfred Edward Housman « Unknowing
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There are varied poetic forms, including narratives, jazz poems, slam poems, sestina, haiku, couplets and sonnets.
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Then he looked at the third, whereon he found written in ultramarine these two couplets,
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She's got all the good accounts in town: McBride's Super Market, where she composes rhymed couplets for the flyers and paper shopping bags Looking for something to eat on Easter—Our ham and lamb will make a feaster!
My Poetic Nemesis
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Varying pace and diction, and characterized by power surges of excitement and humour, this poem in Hudibrastic couplets is one of Burns's greatest achievements.
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The wine added to her beauty and loveliness, and Nur al-Din recited these two couplets,
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Antithetical couplet is a kind of traditional literature form, which has a long history.
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The politics of the women went no farther than a few couplets in praise of liberty, and the patriotism of the men was confined to an habit de garde nationale, the device of a button, or a nocturnal revel, which they called mounting guard.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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Actually, the effect of a couplet and going upscale with gentrification is a displacement of existing small-business jobs out of the area - the factors are the costs of rent increasing, more difficulty locating the business and parking, and lower traffic counts due to the one-way splitting.
Warning: Sewage overflow in Portland (Jack Bog's Blog)
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It's a nicely executed slice of bitterness, in which the speaker's pretensions and Romantic hyperbole are bathetically stripped away by the final snarling couplet.
Archive 2009-10-01
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The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so.
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Then Jamrkan cried out with so mighty a cry, that the whole field made reply and heard it the armies twain, and ran at Kurajan with a heart in rageful pain, improvising these couplets,
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County Monachan, whereat samething is rivi-sible by nighttim, may be involted into the zeroic couplet, palls pell inhis heventh glike noughty times ì, find, if you are not literally cooefficient, how minney combinaisies and per-mutandies can be played on the international surd! pthwndxrclzp!, hids cubid rute being extructed, taking anan illitterettes, ififif at a tom.
Finnegans Wake
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Here is how Arthur Golding rendered the scene, in iambic heptameter couplets, about the time Shakespeare was born.
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The entire nation tuned in to watch his presentation of the 1994-1995 budget interspersed with Urdu couplets and sly digs at the opposition.
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Alexander Pope was satirically dismissive in a memorable couplet: 'On painted ceilings you devoutly stare/ Where sprawl the saints of Verrio and Laguerre.'
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Then comes the balm of the refrain-couplet with the open vowel sounds in ‘Golden lads, and Gz'rles all.’
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Broad farmer created domestic couplet to produce in rural reform practice contract system of job responsibility.
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‘Walter and Jane,’ the second poem, is an artless tale of two lovers, related with a simplicity by no means inelegant, in couplet verse; and to a manner calculated to remind the reader of the narrative style of our best
Review of 'Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs'
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The leaf illustrated here is inscribed with a couplet by one of China's greatest poets.
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The more important metrical tests include the following: the frequency of rhyme, whether in the heroic couplet or, as not uncommonly occurs in early plays, in alternates and even such elaborate arrangements as the sonnet; doggerel lines; alexandrines, or lines of twelve syllables; the presence of an extra syllable before a pause within the line; short lines, especially at the end of speeches; the substitution of other feet for the regular iambic movement of blank verse; weak and light endings; and, most valuable, the position of the pause in the line ( "end-stopped" or "run on"), and feminine endings or hypermetrical lines, such as
The Facts About Shakespeare
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If a character gets hungry, they croon couplets like "I am starving, I must eat / a piece of bread or a hunk of meat."
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Alexandria, built over the grave a place of visitation and endowed it with mortmain writing over the door these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the form of trimetrical double-lines, with a several rhyme for each couplet, it has become the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Said he, “Sing what thou wilt;” so she played a merry measure and carolled these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The 23 existing couplets belonging to the mansion house best manifest Zhang's wit and humor, his political ambition, attitude and his attachment to hometown and relatives .
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On the flyleaf was a Greek elegiac couplet in which Dover had managed (1) to use in an apposite and humorous way a Greek word whose meaning we had discussed in a co-authored article, disputing its translation with John Finnis; (2) to express pleasure at the collaboration; and (3) to compare the "daring" outspokenness of our article to that of his own memoir-all with not only impeccable meter and style, but also graciousness, wit, and elegance.
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Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter.
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It is hard to make the couplet ‘We dance round in a ring…’ into a fortune-cookie fortune or ‘Stir vigorously’ into a stirring poem.
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Sinus rhythm, with bigeminal premature ventricular contractions, and a ventricular couplet.
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In the singing department, his Bolan-esque warble is as expressive as it is idiosyncratic and lyrically, I somehow can't see him being one to slave over a couplet.
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The guru/speaker of Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Noble New" from Songs of the Soul offers eight loving commands to devotees in an octet that consists of two quatrains; the first quatrain features two riming couplets, and second quatrain has the traditional rime scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet, ABAB.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Persian poet whose sensuous rhyming couplets, many of which concern love, wine, and nature, are traditionally interpreted allegorically by Sufic Moslems.
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Both rely heavily on rhyme, favoring couplets but committed to casual or accidental placement rather than to any definite scheme.
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When she came to him, radiant, her hands full of the lilies, a couplet from a favourite poem darted into his head –
Kilmeny of the Orchard
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For the most part, these couplets are serviceable enough.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Almost any form is acceptable - limerick, haiku, free verse, couplets, anything but epic poetry.
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Uns al-Wujud had ended his verse, the wood-culver awoke from its brooding and cooed a reply to his lines and shrilled and trilled with its thrilling notes till it all but spake with human speech; 65 and the tongue of the case talked for it and recited these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A major function of the eastside couplet is to integrate traffic onto the Bridgehead site to give it greater exposure (Opus's idea).
Breakthrough for Burnside Bridgehead (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance.
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Yes! we be true to our vow; and they again recited the couplet:
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
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The rondeau given below, by Adam de la Halle, shows its typical layout as a single-stanza poem of four couplets.
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Next in the cavalcade is a chanter or reader of the Musseeah, who selects passages from that well-arranged work suited to the time when Hosein's person was the mark for Yuzeed's arrows, and which describe his conduct on the trying occasion; one or two couplets being chanted, the procession advances in slow time, halting every five minutes on the way from the beginning to the end of the march.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
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It's written in tetrameter couplets, a form much more congenial to midcentury writers.