Couplet

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Couplets are a rhyme scheme in which every couple of lines rhyme:

aa bb cc dd ee ff

and so on. It was used in Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales in the 14th century. It became popular again in the eighteenth century with poets such as Dryden and Pope. Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic couplets.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Couplet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet, used under the GNU Free Documentation License