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<p>In poetry, a <b>couplet</b> ( ) or <b>distich</b> ( ) is a pair of successive <a href="page.php?w=Line_%28poetry%29">lines</a> that <a href="page.php?w=rhyme">rhyme</a> and have the same <a href="page.php?w=Metre_%28poetry%29">metre</a>. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open).  In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of <a href="page.php?w=Verse_%28poetry%29">verse</a>. In a run-on (open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the</p><p>
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