A Poetic Epigram is a couplet verse form. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit. ...

In early English literature the short couplet poem was dominated by the poetic epigram and proverb, especially in the translations of the Bible and the Greek and Roman poets. Since 1600, two successive lines of verse that rhyme with each other, known as a couplet featured as a part of the longer sonnet form, most notably in William Shakespeare's sonnets number 76 is an excellent example. The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and later by Byron (Don Juan XIII);John Gay(Fables);Alexander Pope(An Essay on Man). It has been suggested that poetic epigram be merged into this article or section. ... A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit. ... William Shakespeare (National Portrait Gallery), in the famous Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. ... In poetics, Closed couplets are two line units of verse that do not extend their sense beyond the lines end. ... William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ... The poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron is often referred to simply as Byron. ... John Gay John Gay (30 June 1685 - 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. ... Alexander Pope, an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism and Rape of the Lock Pope, circa 1727. ...

In Victorian times the epigram couplet was often used by the prolific American poet Emily Dickinson, her poem no 1534 is a typical example of her eleven poetic epigrams .The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings, her best example is shown within her sequenced sonnet poem entitled BROTHER AND SISTER each of the eleven sequenced sonnet ends with a couplet.In her sonnets, the preceding lead-in-line, to the couplet ending of each,could be thought of as a title for the couplet,and as is exampled in Sonnet VIII of the sequence. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... George Eliots birthplace at South Farm, Arbury George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans[1] (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), who was an English novelist. ...

In the early 20th century the rhymed epigram Couplet form developed into a fixed verse image form, with an integral title as the third line, when Adelaide Crapsey codified the Couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem first published, 1915 in Rochester NY by The Manas Press..ON SEEING WEATHER-BEATEN TREES . By the 1930's this five line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar .Originally labelled epigrams but later identified as image cinquains in the style of Adelaide Crapsey. In the last decade of the 20th century the American poet Denis Garrison developed a two line 17 syllable variation of the image couplet with his crystalline ,where euphony is the key component and a title thereto optional. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was an American poet. ... In poetry, a cinquain or quintain is a five line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually with the rhyme scheme ababb. ... Scottish poet, born 1898. ... Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was an American poet. ...