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A couplet of two lines of iambic pentameter with the same end rhymes and forming a logical whole. The heroic couplet was especially popular in .the eighteenth century where its extreme formal order was used to turn contradictions into balanced antitheses.
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Heroic couplets are lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme in pairs (aa, bb, cc). ... Though this verse form was introduced into English by Chaucer in the fourteenth century, its name derives from its use in seventeenth-century "heroic" (epic) drama and poetry.
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heroic couplet: Definition and Pronunciation ... heroic couplet (Thesaurus) ... heroic couplet (Encyclopedia)
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A form as seemingly alien as the heroic couplet--even its pretentious name echoes a long-lost or never-existent world--can in fact tell us something about how the world of public affairs (defined as the process of putting ideas into action) works.
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The iambic pentameter couplet came to be called "heroic" because by the middle of the seventeenth century it was regarded as the proper form for dealing with "heroic" subjects--deeds of high accomplishment ... Return to The Heroic Couplet: Its Rhyme & Reason, by J. Paul Hunter, in Ideas from the National Humanities Center.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about heroic couplet. heroic couplet. Information about heroic couplet in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. heroic couplets ... heroic couplet; Heroic couplets; Heroic couplets; Heroic couplets; Heroic couplets; Heroic cult; Heroic Cycle; Heroic Cycle; heroic drama;
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Augustan heroic couplet. Augustan heroic couplet. Information about Augustan heroic couplet in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from Augustan heroic couplet)
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