Actually, the Word "couplet" does not appear in Romeo and Juliet, and on the only two occasions where Shakespeare uses it, (Hamlet V, 1 and Twelfth Night III, 4) its meaning is far from clear. It means a pair of something, in the Hamlet quotation eggs and in the Twelfth Night one lines of a song. Maybe. However, even if Shakespeare did not use the Word, we use it to describe a pair of lines which rhyme such as "The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,/Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.", the first two lines of Friar Lawrence's monologue at the start of II, 3 which is written entirely in couplets.
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