Which lines are a couplet?

Question

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

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

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

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

Answer 1

A couplet consists of two consecutive lines of poetry that typically rhyme and have the same meter.

In the options you've provided, the lines are from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and they are not arranged as couplets. However, the lines "But bears it out even to the edge of doom" (A) and "I never writ, nor no man ever loved" (B) can be interpreted as completing thoughts, with the other two options (C and D) also providing poetic assertions about love. None of these options specifically form a couplet in their current arrangement.

If you are looking for a specific couplet from the lines provided, none of them form a traditional rhyming couplet in pairs that would fit the typical definition.