Couplet is a type of Western European metrical poetry. The couplet consists of two lines of rhymed verse, with the British "heroic couplet", the French "Alexander couplet" and the German "knittelvers" being the most famous. Basic introduction Chinese name: couplet Literary name: knittelvers Category: Poetry Country: France "Heroic couplet" is iambic pentasyllable and is one of the most common formats of English poetry. It was created by the Renaissance poet Chaucer (about 1340) —1400) based on the reform of the ancient style of English poetry. Seventeenth-century poets Dryden (1631-1700) and Pope (1688-1744). Deliberately strive for refinement to make it perfect and self-contained in syntax and rhythm. "Alexander couplet" is the main form of French narrative poetry and dramatic poetry. It is named after the twelfth-century French knight's legend "Legend of Alexandria". Each stanza of this style has two lines of twelve syllables, with rhyme at the end, and "cross-line" is often used. It is common in the playwrights Corneille (1606-1684), Molière (1622-1673), Racine (1639-1699) and The hand of the poet La Fontaine (1621-1695). Most German narrative poems and dramatic poems in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imitated this rhyme style. This style was later changed to "iambic tetrameter" by the writer Goethe (1749-1832) and the poet and dramatist Schiller (1759-1805). body". Couplets can also be used as aphorisms, euphemisms, substitutions or concluding stanzas embedded in other poems, such as the concluding couplets in Chaucer's "royal verse" and the last two lines in Shakespeare's sonnets. .