10 Examples of Double and Triplet

The doublet and the triplet are literary resources that use a pair or a group of words or phrases, synonyms or opposites, united by a conjunction instead of using a single term. For example: "of bread and wine" / "a night full of perfumes, murmurs and music of wings".

Doublets and triplets are used in both prose as in the poems in Free verse, given that, in the absence of rhyme, they provide sonority, symmetry and musicality. It is for this reason that they are frequently found in literary texts.

In addition, they are common stylistic procedures in translation, in cases in which the equivalent of an expression is not found in a single word in the translated language.

• See also: poetic resources

Types of doublet and triplet

There are different types of doublets and triplets:

• Synonymic doublet or tripleteithergemination. When it comes to two or three words with synonymy, either pleonasm or intensification. For example: Maria came, Maria arrived. It is also often used to address two people of different cultural levels (popular speaker and educated speaker). For example:
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  sad and flutuous (which mean the same thing, but the second term is in Latin).
• antithetical doublet or triplet. When it comes to two or three words that are opposed in some way. For example: Moors and Christians.

doublet examples

1. … And I will go. and they will stay birds 
   singing;
   and my orchard will remain, with its green tree,
   and with its white well.

   Every afternoon, the sky will be blue and placid;
   and they will play, as they are playing this afternoon,
   bell tower bells.

   Those who loved me will die;
   and the town will become new every year;
   and in that corner of my flowery and whitewashed orchard,
   my spirit will wander nostalgic…

   And I will go; and I'll be alone, without a home, without a tree
   green, no white well,
   no blue and placid sky...
   And the birds will stay, singing.
   (Juan Ramón Jiménez – “The definitive journey”)

1. From the eyes of him so loudly crying,
   He turned his head and was tasting them.
   He saw open doors and unlocked shutters,
   empty perches, without skins and without cloaks,
   Y without falcons and without moulting goshawks.
   My Cid sighed, for he was very careful.
   My Cid spoke, well and so measured:
   (Song of the Cid)

1. It is love. I will have to hide or to flee.
   The walls of his prison grow, as in an atrocious dream.
   The beautiful mask has changed, but as always it is the only one (…).
   To be with you or not to be with you is the measure of my time.
   Now the pitcher breaks over the fountain, now the man 
   Get up at the voice of the bird, those who look through the windows have already darkened, but the shadow has not brought peace.
   It is, I know, love: anxiety and relief to hear your voice, waiting and memory, the horror of living henceforth.
   (Jorge Luis Borges – “The threatened one”)

1. -But who was right? Who has the reason? Who was wrong? I asked disoriented.
   –Everyone had their reasons, everyone was wrong.
   (Umberto Eco- The name of the rose)

1. between what I see and I say,
   between what I say and shut up,
   between what shut up and sleep,
   between what dream and forget
   The poetry.
   slides between the yes and the no:
   He says
   what I shut up,
   shut up
   what I say,
   sounds
   what I forget
   It is not a saying:
   it is a doing.
   is a do
   what is a saying (…).
   (Octavio Paz – “Say, do”)

triplet examples

1. One night,
   one night all full of perfumes, murmurs and music of wings,
   one night,
   in which the fantastic fireflies burned in the nuptial and humid shade,
   by my side, slowly, against me girded, all, dumb and pale
   as if a premonition of infinite bitterness
   Even the most secret depths of your fibers will shake you (...)
   (José Asunción Silva – “Nighttime”) 

1. with the afternoon
   the two or three colors of the courtyard got tired.
   Tonight, the moon, the clear circle,
   does not dominate your space.
   Patio, channeled sky.
   The courtyard is the decline
   by which the sky spills into the house.
   serene,
   eternity waits at the crossroads of stars.
   Pleasant it is to live in the dark friendship
   of a hall, a vine and a cistern.
   (Jorge Luis Borges)

1. narrow roads
   traversed
   huge stones
   skipped
   heat, cold and rain
   weathered
   and loneliness
   overdue

   all
   it was worth it
   to get to you.
   (Koldo Iron)

1. Open in a thousand wounds, every moment,
   which my forehead,
   your waves go, like my thoughts,
   and they come, they come and they come,
   kissing, parting,
   in an eternal meeting,
   sea, and unknown.
   (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

1. Its beginning, its middle and end is this:
   So why, Alcinus, do you feel the diversion
   of Celia, that another time loved you well?
   What reason is there that pain costs you?
   Well, love did not deceive you, my Alcinus,
   but the precise term arrived.
   (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – “Love begins with restlessness”)

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