two not three

Terza rima: A sequence of interrupted couplets.

not a couplet

The cathedral towers of Chartres don’t rime.

not the marrying kind

The couplet rimes were a bad match: One was turning in circles at the altar, and the other forgot the ring.

impaired

One might say the last two lines of that sonnet were ‘the odd couplet’.

from the desk of the editor #4

You've heard that Eskimos have a dozen words for snow;
we editors have at least a couple dozen for ‘No’.

good for too

When a good couplet comes together it’s the simultaneous orgasm of language.

aphoristic ambitions

Every couplet aspires to aphorism (or epigram). [Thinking of Alexander Pope.]

verse tweezers

A couplet: verse tweezers used to present an image or a thought held in its squeeze of rhyme.

perfect circle, perfect couplet

If in poetry there was an analog to Vasari’s story about Giotto’s perfect circle, would it be the ability to compose a perfect pentameter couplet as epigram on any given subject? ("Perfetto come la 'O' di Giotto", the Italian meaning: "As perfect as Giotto's circle".)