If you have considered becoming a poet, then understanding and knowing how to write a rhyming couplet is the perfect place to begin. Often thought of as one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry, it has been used in many famous works of art, such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. A rhyming couplet is a set of back to back lines that rhyme. These two lines are written in the same meter. A meter is a pattern of syllables that follow stressed and unstressed rhythms; the most common meter, iambic, is one unstressed and one stressed. When two couplets are combined together, you have formed a verse to your poem.
Instructions
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Choose the subject matter that you are going to write about.
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Write the first line of your couplet. Choose an ending word that has important meaning to your theme.
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Write the second line to the couplet. Choose an ending word that rhymes with the last word of the first line and continues with the theme you are trying to express.
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Read your couplet back to yourself. Determine if both the rhyme and idea come to a quick close in the two lines. It should flow similar to this example:
I found a seashell yesterday
When I was swimming in the bay.