4.2 How To Read A Poem With Rhythm By Identifying Rhyming Couplets

Can You Identify Rhyming Couplets?

Do you see the word "couple" in couplet? A couple is two of something. Rhyming couplets are two poetry lines in a row that rhyme. They usually have the same rhythm.

Rhyming couplets are used in simple poems and in very complex poems (mumps and bumps). Even Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare used rhyming couplets.

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