Word: couplet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole valley bubbled with sunbeams like a beer-glass is not bad Rimbaud, and in Portrait of My Father as a Young Man Lowell achieves a couplet...
...stanza scheme. Instead, words of related sound appear in the same line quite consistently. "Now they palaver on forever" is a good line in its own right, and it has the further virtue of participating in the structure of the poem. Berman, on the other hand, inserts the following couplet in the midst of conventionally rhymed lines: "The thirst for melted fire that you had/Locked in you like the blueness of you blood...
...reason remains for saving the Howard. Rumor has it that Father Miller's ghost, which comes back every April 25 to haunt the Athenaeum and to repeat its favorite little couplet, may take its prophesying elsewhere if the building is demolished--perhaps even to the offices of the City Planning Board...
...have more or less Siamese minds. While trying to break into show business, they held some of the odder odd jobs available. Elaine worked as a private eye, Mike drove a post office truck, served as a judge in a jingle contest, in which entrants had to complete a couplet whose first line went "This house has charms that grow and grow . . ." (His favorite losing entry: ". . .a lovely home for Jean Jacques Rousseau...
...This couplet by 19th century Poet Arthur Hugh Clough was quoted last week by one of the Church of England's top theologians, Dr. Robert Mortimer, Bishop of Exeter, to summarize his view of how doctors should take care of their very old, very sick patients...