Sonnet 1 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.
In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal or run-on. In a formal couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying
A chunlian on doorway
A Kural couplet on display inside a Chennai Metro train