what is a couplet
couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed. line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem. closed couplet - a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit. heroic couplet - a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.