Which lines are a couplet?

Question

(1 point)
Responses

“If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

“It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”

“It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”

“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”

Answer 1

A couplet consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

From the provided lines, the couplets are:

1. "If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved."

2. "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
   But bears it out even to the edge of doom."

3. "O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
   That looks on tempests and is never shaken;"

Each of these examples contains two lines, but only the first two provided are genuine couplets. The third example is not a couplet as it consists of only one line. Therefore, the correct couplets are:

• “If this be error and upon me proved,
  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

• “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”