bait — meaning in English

English meaning

• couplet noun A set of two things, particularly.
• stanza noun A group of lines in a poem, set apart from the next group by a blank line and often sharing a fixed pattern of length, rhythm and rhyme.

Senses

bait is used for these senses in English:

• couplet (literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
• stanza (poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

couplet — full definition

1. noun A set of two things, particularly.
2. noun A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
3. noun Ellipsis of antithetical couplet, Chinese couplet, or duilian couplet (“duilian”).
4. noun A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

stanza — full definition

1. noun A group of lines in a poem, set apart from the next group by a blank line and often sharing a fixed pattern of length, rhythm and rhyme.
2. noun A verse of a song, as distinct from the chorus.

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