【Poem Reading Tuesday】What Is Couplet Poem？並學一下英文詩術語

A couplet is a pair of lines that rhyme. Usually both lines have the same meter. A couplet expresses a complete thought and can be funny or serious. Some poems are made from several couplets put together. 

The couplet form suits a love poem, of course, because the pairing of the two rhymes, so close to each other on successive lines, mirrors the coupling of the two lovers.

Here’s an example of a short couplet：

April showers
Bring May flowers

Here is an example of a couplet poem：

An Essay on Criticism: Part 2

BY ALEXANDER POPE

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"Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,'
In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees;'
In crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,'
The readers threatened (not in vain) with 'sleep.'"

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Homework：Write a couplet poem.

BTW， Let us learn some terms of poetry（Fig 1）：

Fig 1:

Questions：How many verses does the following poem have？How many stanzas does the poem have：（感謝 最西邊的島上 提供）

 

The birds are singing

The daisies are blooming

The sun is getting up

On this early morning

The dew is rolling

The branches are dancing 

I whispered to them

Hello my happy garden