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Throughout the ages, however, rhymed love poetry has been the prevalent form of this type of expression. Rhyme is achieved when sounds are repeated within a verse or at the end of two different verses. For example, we present a "couplet" which is composed of two end-rhymed verses:

I have not seen you for many days,

And truly I've missed you in countless ways.

The couplet is the smallest verse grouping more commonly refered to as a "stanza."

There are many different patterns of poetry which depend on the number of verses as well as the end rhyming pattern used. Here are examples which you can refer to when writing your own love poems;

Triplet (3 verses)

a) She opened her eyes, and green
b) They shone, clear, like flowers undone
a) For the first time, now for the last time seen.
- D. H. Lawrence

Quatrain (4 verses)

a) A ruddy drop of manly blood
b) The surging sea outweighs;
c) The world uncertain comes and goes,
b) The lover rooted stays.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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