Definition of Heroic couplet

1. Noun. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style.

Generic synonyms: Couplet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroic Couplet

hero
hero-worship
hero call
hero calls
hero sandwich
hero worship
hero worshiper
hero worshipper
heroa
herodiones
heroe
heroes
heroess
heroesses
heroic
heroic couplet (current term)
heroic meter
heroic meters
heroic poem
heroic poetry
heroic stanza
heroic tale
heroic verse
heroical
heroically
heroicize
heroicized
heroicizes
heroicizing
heroick

Literary usage of Heroic couplet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"His use of the heroic couplet is not indeed best illustrated in the epic style of Bosworth Field, though this contains many strong lines, as in the episode ..."

2. The History of England from the Restoration to the Death of William III by Richard Lodge (1910)
"The age of the heroic couplet begins with Waller and extends to Johnson. Waller's first experiment in the couplet was as early as 1623, ..."

3. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"To this rimed and fairly regular type the name " heroic couplet" is commonly given; the quotation from Pope's Iliad, on page 261 above, ..."

4. Coleridge's Literary Criticism by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John William Mackail (1908)
"or two well known and strictly defined metres, such as the heroic couplet, the octave stanza, or the octosyllabic measure of the Allegro and Penseroso. ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"But there are places where the heroic couplet is suitable, where it helps and does not hinder the translator. It is suited, as Dryden discovered, ..."

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