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COMING SOON!


COUPLETS. COM
The dating site for poets!
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Tired of relationships characterized by repetition and blank verse?  Exasperated by hyperbole and half rhymes?  Rankled by dissonance and dysphemism? 

Find your muse at Couplets.com -- the new dating site for poets!  Don't just sit at home counting the ways your relationships have failed.  Instead,  sign-up to become a member of Couplets.com and explore the depth and breadth and height your soul can reach with other registered members in search of a poet.

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Pictured at the right:  Couplets.com members will be scientifically -- and poetically -- matched with the 91 Dimensions included on Emmett Lee Dickinson's
"Periodic Table of Poetic Elements."

Click the image to enlarge.
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Couplets.com is a joint effort between the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts (DOPE)
and the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard in historic Washerst, Pennsylvania).

Sample Questions from the 91 Dimensions of Poetic Compatibility

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Pictured below:  Couplets.com's "91 Dimensions of Poetry" questionnaire was developed by poetologists Doctors Constance "Connie" and Dino Tayshun. 

Both are leading scholars on the "Periodic Table of Poetic Elements" devised by Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request.
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1. If you were to write a poem about your love life, which element of poetry would be most useful?

a. Hyperbole
b. Onomatopoeia
c. Metaphor
d. False Rhyme
e. Repetition


2. What type of poetry best describes your past love life?

a. Haiku
b. Limerick
c. Sonnet
d. Blank verse
e. Epic


3. What makes a poem great?

a. End Rhyme (or Internal Rhyme)
b. Rhythm
c. Length
d. Symbolism
e. Assonance


4. What is your favorite theme in poetry?

a. Love
b. Nature
c. Pain & Anguish
d. Loss
e. Death



The advertising campaign our Marketing Team has developed is nothing short of SWELL!

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The advertisement at the left was based on a poem by Emily Dickinson:

Adrift! A little boat adrift!
And night is coming down!
Will no one guide a little boat
Unto the nearest town?

So Sailors say — on yesterday --
Just as the dusk was brown
One little boat gave up its strife
And gurgled down and down.

So angels say — on yesterday --
Just as the dawn was red
One little boat — o'erspent with gales --
Retrimmed its masts — redecked its sails --
And shot — exultant on!

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