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her·o·ic cou·plet

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  1. heroic coupletnoun

    a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style

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  1. Heroic couplet

    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and early 18th century respectively.

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  1. heroic couplet

    A heroic couplet is a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter, a type of metre in poetry containing five metrical feet, each consisting of one short unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable. It is called "heroic" because it was used in epic or heroic poetry. This style of couplet, with its compact, neatly balanced structure, became one of the standard poetic forms in English literature, popularized by poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Alexander Pope.

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  1. Heroic couplet

    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heroic couplet in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heroic couplet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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