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heroic couplets

heroic couplets is the plural of heroic couplet.

Meaning of heroic couplet

Noun

heroic couplet (plural heroic couplets)

  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...2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18

Questions about heroic couplets

What is heroic couplets the plural of?
Heroic couplets is the plural of heroic couplet.

Words near heroic couplets in the dictionary

  1. Heroic Age
  2. heroic assumption
  3. heroic assumptions
  4. heroic cooling
  5. heroic couplet
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  7. heroic dose
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  9. heroic epic
  10. heroic epics
  11. heroic medicine

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