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heroic couplet

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

heroic couplet
n
(Literature / Poetry) Prosody a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
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Noun1.heroic couplet - a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
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heroic couplet
n (Poet) → Heroic Couplet nt, Reimpaar aus fünffüßigen Jamben


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Changing forms from free verse to heroic couplets and other poetic devices as suits the story, She Alone encapsulates its nameless protagonist's struggle to find her own sense of place and identity in a rapidly evolving world.
Changing forms from free verse to heroic couplets and other poetic devices as suits the story, She Alone encapsulates its nameless protagonist's struggle to find her own sense of place and identity in a rapidly evolving world.
His target in the Dunciad is his era's epidemic of bad writing - here, wrong-headed metaphors - and he doesn't just describe them, he writes them; yet simultaneously he can't help but produce heroic couplets of supernal elegance.
 
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