Talk:Couplet

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The correct spelling is "distich" in the Webster dictionary, not "distych." Dave1999


 * Fixed. :) Martin


 * After REDIRECTions this couplet is a complet confusion!:-* Maybe we need to specify at least in this page after each example what kind of distich it is (paradoxist, dualistic, tautological). Lit-sci

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All loses are restored and sorrows end   amanda sabalauskas

--- I found a poem within the section called Couplets in Western Poetry. You're welcome to cross-check the words! I cheated a little and doubled back with "Traditionally, Western Couplets are dumb rhyme" but came up with this:

Couplets describe many things of which you deal in daily life.

Western couplets are dumb rhyme, although not all couplets rhyme.

Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. Traditionally, Western couplets are dumb.

Both the rhyme and the idea

come to a quick close in two lines; the sense as well as the sound rhymes.

-cbo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.215.28.47 (talk) 04:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

African tribes
The sentence at the top about african tribes seemed suspicious, so I checked who added it. It was added in April 3 by an IP who also vandalized the page before and after (probably). A pity it managed to linger in the article for so long... Uffish (talk) 14:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
This page should be returned to the base name "Couplet" because this is the primary usage. I have moved the new dab page to Couplet (disambiguation) to make room for this move. PamD (talk) 11:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. —  AjaxSmack   16:52, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. The usage in literature is far and away the primary meaning. The only other entries are an obscure 17th-century missionary and an episode of a television show. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 21:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

examples section
are these seemingly random examples even necessary, since a fine example is given in the beginning of the article? ViniTheHat (talk) 16:12, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Distich dilemma
Wikipedia can send one round in pointless circles. I read a Wikipage that quoted a "Distich" with, naturally, a hyperlink. But the Distich page redirects automatically to "Couplet". Then at the bottom of the Couplet page I find there's a section "See also" which recommends visiting the "Distich" page! Whoever requested the redirecting of distich is a dipstick! Ultimately it seems to me that a distich is a particular form of couplet for which one must now reference a NON-WIKI encylopedia for information. Wikipedia by comparison is (albeit unintentionally) doing its utmost to eradicate the word distich from the English language! Hardly right and proper. Pete Hobbs (talk) 16:30, 15 February 2013 (UTC)


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