OK. Here starts the section on Couplets, Quatrains and Sonnets.
A Brief Overview:
What is a couplet?:
A couplet is a pair of lines in a verse that are of similar length and they rhyme. It is one of the most common forms of poetry in the European languages.
Officially brought to the English language in the 14th century by Chaucer when he used rhyming iambic pentameters in The Canterbury Tales; it was revived in the 17th century by John Dryden (amongst others) and dominated English poetry in the 18th century with that century's champion being Alexander Pope.
Couplets are constructed so that they can stand on their own
(become an epigram) or they can be used as building blocks to create:
1) Triplets
2) Quatrains
3) Sonnets
Right - let's break ground and dig deeper into couplets and how we can use them.
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