Word: coupleteer
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...original poem has only sixty-two words in two aaba quatrains and a concluding couplet. It may be translated without rhyme thus...
...fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...
What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
Every child knows the couplet...
...wish you would have your type-founders get you up a lower-case "&." It would ease the pain of many of us old-time printers, and decidedly improve the appearance of the couplet. The Spanish use of "y" as in "Gomez y Soto" to indicate the paternal and maternal names of an individual gives a much better appearance than would the use of a capital...