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Heroic couplet
noun
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Noun
- 1 A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter, used in epic poetry.
"Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet. It moved into most forms of drama. Yet the heroic couplet held its own as a vehicle for meditative and satiric poetry and, until Miltons example took hold some half-century after his death, as a vehicle for narrative poetry also."
- 2 a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style wordnet
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