Many of Frost’s best poems were in verse and he especially loved couplets such as those in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In that poem he rhymed one line — “Whose woods these are I ...

Writing a couplet can be tough, But when you work with friends, it's not so rough. On Monday, NPR's Morning Edition asked listeners and readers to share poems about the teams in their lives ...

“Eye” is “I.” The love poem’s a self-portrait. Couplets are seductive, but a dangerous lilt, as too much of this good could easily tilt to light verse. To be clear, there’s nothing ...

It’s never too late to start!) Once you’ve got these, you’ve learned a third of the poem, since this repeating couplet functions as a mini-chorus at the start of each stanza. That refrain ...

So, a concluding couplet in a sonnet feels like that last drum beat of a powwow song to me. So, I get my nice mix of Western culture and tribal culture. What inspires a poem for me is usually a ...