Sunday, 6 March 2016

The Sordid History of Couplets

How one line got lonely and started a relationship with another line.  
   
Photo via Flickr - "Poems" by Pascal Maramis
























The Couplet was once just a lonely sentence
Whose thought didn't quite seem ended.
He thought he'd date the following line
Who thought that he looked mighty fine.
But their relationship was quickly ended
the moment the bad poet penned it.
For a lonely couplet is only truly fine
When it's made to be paired in perfect rhyme
Not when it starts a love affair
Out of loneliness and lack of punctuation.


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