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Heroic Couplet

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Noun

1. heroic couplet

a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Heroic Couplet

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noun
prosody
a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

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Heroic Couplet

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a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: “In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend”)

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Heroic Couplet

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n.
A verse unit consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.

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