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Definition and Examples of Heroic couplet – Literary terms
Heroic couplet:
A pair of rhyming IAMBIC
PENTAMETER lines; the favored VERSE FORM of eighteenth-century neoclassical
poets. Although it was introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer, this couplet takes its
name from its use in the heroic DRAMA of John Dryden and the MOCK EPICS of
Alexander Pope. In the hands of these and other neoclassical writers, the
closed form of the heroic couplet (each couplet syntactically complete) proved
to be an appropriate instrument (one might almost say weapon) for their
aphoristic WIT. A few lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism will show the
typical pattern of a complete thought every two lines:
Whatever Nature has in
worth denied,
She gives in large
recruits of needful pride;
For as in bodies, thus in
souls, we find
What wants in blood and
spirits, swelled with wind:
Pride, where wit fails,
steps in to our defense,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
If once right reason
drives that cloud away, .
Truth breaks upon us with
resistless day.
Trust not yourself; but
your defects to know,
Make use of every friend and every foe.
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