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Open Couplet Defined

A couplet in which the thought is carried beyond the rhyming lines to end at any point in any line of a subsequent couplet. A good example appears in Endymion, Book I, by John Keats.
Sidelight: The open couplet originated in Chaucer's riding rhyme and later enjoyed much popularity in the romantic period.
(See Enjambment)
(See also Distich, Heroic Couplet)
(Contrast End-Stopped, Closed Couplet)

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