The song's opening couplet, "Love, soft as an easy chair, love fresh as the morning air," almost did not appear that way.

The opening couplet is wince-inducing: "I'm bidin' my time/'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm."

The opening couplet of their elusive final album.

The quotations highlighted are the opening couplets of each poem, by which each would have been identified in medieval manuscripts of the collection:

The change of rhythm between the opening couplet and the first stanza adds to the contrast and vitality.

And the opening couplet of "Midnite Snack" rhymes "room" with "Oranjeboom."

The opening couplet - "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?

Pope contends in the poem's opening couplets that bad criticism does greater harm than bad writing:

One of his very famous ghazals starts with the following matla (the first line of the opening couplet of a ghazal).

Moreover, Wesley's original opening couplet is "Hark!