Rhyming Couplets Examples
“True wit is nature to advantage _dressed_ What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”
- Alexander Pope
True wit is nature to advantage distressed,
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
- Eve King
O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull,
Strong without rage, without o’erflowing full.
- Cooper’s Hill
Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
- Shakespeare (End of Sonnet LXXXVIII)
So precious are true friends who lend their ears
and give their time to wipe away sad tears.
- Joy Saunders
Nodding perfume. In my garden birds sing,
Roses bloom, and I am remembering.
- Josie Falla
But if thou live, remember’d not to be,
Die single and thine image dies with thee.
- Shakespeare (Sonnet III)