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heroic couplet

noun Prosody.

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.

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Words nearby heroic couplet

herodian, herodias, herodotus, heroic, heroic age, heroic couplet, heroic drama, heroic poem, heroic quatrain, heroic stanza, heroic verse

Origin of heroic couplet

First recorded in 1900–05
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British Dictionary definitions for heroic couplet

heroic couplet

noun

prosody a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
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