what is couplet - couplet examples

 what is couplet - couplet examples

 Two lines with rhyming ends. Shakespeare often used a couplet to end a sonnet.

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Shall i compare thee to summers day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,

And summers lease hath all too short a date:

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm`d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature`s changing course untrimm`d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall death brag thou wander`s in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.