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heroic couplet
noun
, Prosody.
- a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
heroic couplet
noun
- prosody a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heroic couplet1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
It owes its place to its sustained vigour, and the fact that the heroic couplet is in the hands of a master.
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The "Fragments of College Exercises" show a futile attempt to wield the heroic couplet with sonorous rhetoric.
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It is doubtful whether the heroic couplet has ever been more finely handled.
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In versification Hunts aim was to bring back into use the earlier form of the rhymed English decasyllabic or heroic couplet.
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The line of the heroic couplet is not long enough to reproduce the hexameter, and Virgil is especially succinct.
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