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.”
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A couplet is a pair of lines in poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter. In the lines you've provided, the couplet is:
B. “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
This pair of lines forms a complete thought and concludes with a rhyme, making it a couplet.
