couplet

A couplet is two lines of verse or two lines in a poem, especially when they are the same length and they rhyme. (noun)

An example of a couplet is two rhyming lines in a Shakespearean poem.

See couplet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

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(kŭpˈlĭt)

noun

A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
Two similar things; a pair.

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