A couplet [CUP-let] is the simplest form of poetry.

Do you see the word "couple" in

couplet? A couple is two of something. A couplet is a poem made of two lines of
rhyming poetry that usually have the same meter. There are no rules about length
or rhythm. Two words that rhyme can be called a couplet
What is a Rhyming Couplet?
A Rhyming Couplet is two line of the same length that rhyme and complete one
thought. There is no limit to the length of the lines. Rhyming words are words that
sound the same when spoken, they don't necessarily have to be spelt the same.
Examples of Rhyming Couplets
The wind blew very strong - As we scurried along
Plastic snake - Very fake
In the morning the sun shone bright - Clearing the thoughts of the dark night
Rhyming Couplets are common in Shakespearean sonnets.
O, how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes,
Than both your poets can in praise devise.
Rhyming Couplets are used in poetry to help the poem become interesting. It is
used to produce a form of rhyme throughout the whole poem either just on two
lines or all the way through.
Rhyming Couplets in Literature
"Singing he was, or fluting all the day;
He was as fresh as is the month of May." - Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Rhyming Couplets from William Shakespeare
"The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!" - Hamlet
Rhyming Couplets from Other Sources
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall - nursery rhyme

In French narrative and dramatic poetry, the rhyming alexandrine (12-syllable line)
is the dominant couplet form, and German and Dutch verse of the 17th and 18th
centuries reflects the influence of the alexandrine couplet.
The term couplet is also commonly substituted for stanza in French versification. A
square couplet, for example, is a stanza of eight lines, with each line composed
of eight syllables.
A stanza is the "proper" name for what is more commonly known as a "verse".
(Confusingly, to prosodists the word "verse" seems often to mean what you and I
would, in our ignorance, call a "line".)
2-line stanzas A 2-line stanza is called a couplet.
3-line stanzas A 3-line stanza of any kind is called a tercet.
4-line stanzas 4-line stanza of any kind is called a quatrain.
5-line stanzas A 5-line stanza of any kind can be called a quintain,
6-line stanzas 5-line stanzas can be called sixain, sextet and hexastich
7-line stanzas A 7-line stanza of any kind is called a septet.
8-line stanzas An 8-line stanza of any kind is called an octave (or occasionally
an octet). The word octave is also used for the first 8 lines of a sonnet.
9-line stanzas The best known is the Spenserian stanza .
EIGHT SYLLABLE
The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is
equivalent to tetrameter verse in iambs or trocheesin languages with a stress
accent.
In Medieval French literature, the octosyllable rhymed couplet was the most
common verse form used in verse chronicles, romances(the romans), lais and dits.
The meter reached Spain in the 14th century, although commonly with a more
varied rhyme scheme than the couplet. The French octosyllablic verse came to
England via the Anglo-Norman poets from the 12th-13th centuries and influenced 4
stress tetrameter verse used in narration (as in Chaucer).
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