heroic couplet

The ghost of the heroic couplet hangs faintly in the background.

In the final section, the heroic couplet, Shakespeare makes the point of the sonnet clear.

The poem itself consists of 206 lines of heroic couplets.

It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets.

The poem has 430 lines, divided into heroic couplets.

Constructed from eleven lines (five heroic couplets), the 3rd is significantly shorter than the others.

"I greatly enjoy making heroic couplets," she said of her current work, translating Seneca.

Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.

He cursed the day when he had chosen to cast the most important work of his career in heroic couplets.

In its canonical form, it is composed of 419 lines of heroic couplets.

He had a genuine "enthusiasm for Pope's lean, compact heroic couplets."

He wrote almost exclusively in closed heroic couplets.

The essay, written in heroic couplets, comprises four epistles.

Each poem is written as enjambed heroic couplets in several chapters.

Rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter lines form the heroic couplet.

This pursuit of freedom was largely a reaction against conservative values entrenched within the rigid heroic couplet.

By the end of the 17th century the heroic couplet was the dominant form of English poetry.

The speakers of the fourteen dialogues in heroic couplets are sea-gods and sea-nymphs.

Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century.

In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet.

This form was called the "heroic couplet," because it was suitable for heroic subjects.

This would suggest that the poem is not only an early use of heroic couplets but also one of the first mock-heroic works in English.

"The play is set in 17th-century France and is written in heroic couplets," the production member says.

Not in fact the earliest English satirist, Hall wrote in smooth heroic couplets.

There are some charming lines among its heroic couplets, the work throughout of an ardent disciple of Pope.