Heroic Couplet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Prosody.
  1. 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.
noun
  1. a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
Heroic Couplet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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