Which preposition to use with couplets

of Occurrences 43%

The original is in couplets of six hemistichs.

in Occurrences 23%

In former years St. Margaret's Day (July 20) was celebrated with many curious ceremonies, and, according to a well-known couplet in allusion to the emblem of the vanquished dragon, which appears in most pictures of St. Margaret: "Poppies a sanguine mantle spread For the blood of the dragon that Margaret shed.

to Occurrences 10%

The Orientals compare each couplet to a single pearl and the entire "Ghazal," or Ode, to a string of pearls.

from Occurrences 8%

* Couplet from a Shaker Song.

with Occurrences 7%

In the same category one may find the songs which are peculiar to the women, "couplets with which they accompany themselves in their dances; the songs, the complaints which one hears them repeat during whole hours in a rather slow and monotonous rhythm while they are at their household labors, turning the hand-mill, spinning and weaving cloths, and composed by the women, both words and music.

for Occurrences 6%

Now and then they contain a bit of excellent lyric poetry, and in All for Love, another version of Antony and Cleopatra, where he leaves his cherished heroic couplet for the blank verse of Marlowe and Shakespeare, he shows what he might have done had he not sold his talents to a depraved audience.

by Occurrences 4%

261) the following couplet by Dryden: 'Fate after him below with pain did move, And victory could scarce keep pace above.

about Occurrences 3%

" Sandoval was getting merry, so he began to sing a shady couplet about the friars.

as Occurrences 3%

These are: (1) the establishment of the heroic couplet as the fashion for satiric, didactic, and descriptive poetry; (2) his development of a direct, serviceable prose style such as we still cultivate; and (3) his development of the art of literary criticism in his essays and in the numerous prefaces to his poems.

on Occurrences 3%

The impishness which characterised his whole career inspired him to turn a highly improper couplet on an accident that happened in public to Mademoiselle,and worst of all, he set it to music.

at Occurrences 2%

In the sestet (the last six lines) more liberty of rhyme and arrangement is permitted, but a rhymed couplet at the end is not usual except when the sonnet departs from the Italian model and is on the English or, as we say, "Shakespearian" pattern.

after Occurrences 2%

"But he who measures as he goes A mongrel kind of tinkling prose, And is too frugal to dispense At once both poetry and sense, Who, from amidst his slumbering guards, Deals out a charge to subject bards, Where couplets after couplets creep, Propitious to the reign of sleep," etc.

below Occurrences 1%

The letters were formed by the human figure in different attitudes, and each block had a little couplet below the picture, beginning with the letter on the block.

out Occurrences 1%

"Nine Couplets out of Thirty-six.

from Occurrences 1%

Three Couplets from twenty-three, in Everett's Versif., p. 66.

into Occurrences 1%

Then he adapted the French couplets into pleasant prose comedy, giving with a light touch the romancing of feats of war and of an entertainment on the river, but at last he turned desperately serious, and sent his Young Bookwit to Newgate on a charge of killing the gentlemanhere called Lovemorewho was at last to win the hand of the lady whom the Liar loved.

between Occurrences 1%

The verse seldom rises above an amiable mediocrity, the best that can be said for it being that it carries on, in a not wholly unworthy manner, the dainty tradition of the octosyllabic couplet between the Faithful Shepherdess and Milton's early poems.

like Occurrences 1%

It's too beautiful and truly poetic to be spoiled by a completing couplet like: "'And in the distant dam the croaking frog Completes, O May, thy wondrous catalogue.'

Which preposition to use with  couplets