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单词 heroic couplet
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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.

Origin of heroic couplet

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby heroic couplet

Herodias, Herodotus, Herod the Great, heroic, heroic age, heroic couplet, heroic drama, heroicize, heroicomic, heroic poem, heroic quatrain
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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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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