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  2. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    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, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...

  3. Couplet - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, a couplet (/ ˈ k ʌ p l ə t / CUP-lət) or distich (/ ˈ d ɪ s t ɪ k / DISS-tick) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line ...

  4. Heroic verse - Wikipedia

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    The heroic couplet is a pair of iambic pentameter lines that rime together. Frequently, the term is associated with the balanced, closed couplets that dominated English verse from roughly 1640 to 1790, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] although the form dates back to Chaucer, and remains in use often in a looser form.

  5. An Essay on Man - Wikipedia

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    The essay, written in heroic couplets, comprises four epistles. Pope began work on it in 1729, and had finished the first three by 1731. They appeared in early 1733, with the fourth epistle published the following year. The poem was originally published anonymously; Pope did not admit authorship until 1735.

  6. The Hind and the Panther - Wikipedia

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    The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts (1687) is an allegory in heroic couplets by John Dryden.At some 2600 lines it is much the longest of Dryden's poems, translations excepted, and perhaps the most controversial.

  7. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady - Wikipedia

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    "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady", also called "Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady", is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his Works of 1717. [1] Though only 82 lines long, it has become one of Pope's most celebrated pieces.

  8. The Deserted Village - Wikipedia

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    The poem has 430 lines, divided into heroic couplets. This form features an "AABBCC..." rhyme scheme, with ten-syllable lines written in iambic pentameter. It is an example of georgic and pastoral poetry. [8] The poem is also an example of Augustan verse. In its use of a balanced account of Auburn in its inhabited and deserted states, and in ...

  9. Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot - Wikipedia

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    Both in composition and in publication, the poem had a chequered history. In its canonical form, it is composed of 419 lines of heroic couplets. [4] The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is notable as the source of the phrase "damn with faint praise," which has subsequently seen so much common usage that it has become a cliché or idiom.