Editing Couplet (section)

==In Tamil poetry==
[[File:Kural in Chennai Metro Train.jpg|thumb|A [[Tirukkural|Kural]] couplet on display inside a [[Chennai Metro]] train]]
[[Tamil literature]] contains some of the notable examples of ancient couplet poetry. The [[Tamil language]] has a rich and refined grammar for couplet poetry, and distichs in Tamil poetry follow the [[venpa]] metre.<ref name="Zvelebil1973">{{cite book|author=Kamil Zvelebil|title=The smile of Murugan: On Tamil literature of South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VF2VMUoY_okC&pg=PA156|access-date=11 December 2010|year=1973|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-03591-1|pages=156–171}}</ref> One of the most notable examples of Tamil couplet poetry is the ancient Tamil moral text of the [[Tirukkural]], which contains a total of 1330 couplets written in the [[kural (poetic form)|kural venpa]] metre from which the title of the work was derived centuries later. Each Kural couplet is made of exactly 7 words—4 in the first line and 3 in the second.<ref name="GUPope_SacredKurral">{{cite book
 | last = Pope 
 | first = G. U. 
 | title = The Sacred Kurral of Tiruvalluva Nayanar 
 | url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43871
 | publisher = Asian Educational Services
 | date = 1886
 | location = New Delhi
 }}</ref> The first word may rhyme with the fourth or the fifth word. Below is an example of a couplet:

:{{lang|ta|இலன்என்று தீயவை செய்யற்க செய்யின்}}
:{{lang|ta|இலனாகும் மற்றும் பெயர்த்து}}. ([[Tirukkural]], verse 205)

::''Transliteration'': Ilan endru theeyavai seyyarkka seyyin
::Ilanaagum matrum peyartthu

::''Translation'': Make not thy poverty a plea for ill;
::Thine evil deeds will make thee poorer still. ([[George Uglow Pope|Pope]], 1886)<ref name="GUPope_SacredKurral"/>