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Couplet
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<p>In poetry, a couplet or distich (/ˈdɪstɪk/ DISS-tick) is a pair of successive <a href="/facts/Line_(poetry)/3KULHW6m">lines</a> that <a href="/facts/Rhyme/CV7TzhCI">rhyme</a> and have the same <a href="/facts/Metre_(poetry)/uIzxuQHA">metre</a>. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of <a href="/facts/Verse_(poetry)/SxdMr3En">verse</a>. In a run-on (open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second. </p>