Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ?
Correct answer: A. "Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from."
- A. "Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from."
- B. "To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever."
- C. "I heard a car crash / just as I died."
- D. "Death comes for all of us / even you."
Explanation
A couplet consists of two consecutive lines, commonly linked by rhyme or a shared syntactic and rhythmic unit. Option a is the only pair that forms a conventional rhyming couplet; option b contains three lines.
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