Speech-language pathologists work with the communication-impaired to restore and augment their abilities. Practicing in the field requires a graduate degree and specialized training, but many bachelor's degrees -- including one in education -- can serve as a starting point.
couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed. line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem. closed couplet - a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit. heroic couplet - a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
Stanza Breaks. In poetry, stanzas are visual groupings of lines. A group of two lines is called a couplet. A three line stanza is called a tercet. A four line stanza is a quatrain, and a five line stanza is a quintet. Two other common lengths are a sestet, six lines; and an octave, eight lines. For instance, you might break a fourteen line poem into three quatrains and a couplet, or into an octave and a sestet.