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Heroic Couplets

Type:  

Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic

 
Description: 

Rhymed couplets composed in Heroic Lines. In English-language poetry, that means iambic pentameter.

 
Schematic: 
Rhyme: aa bb cc, etc.

Meter: xX xX xX xX xX
 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

2

 
See Also:  

Alexandrine, Blues Sonnet, Classical Heroic Line, English Heroic Line, Heroic Octave, Heroic Sestet, Heroic Stanza, Iambic Pentameter, Shakespearean Sonnet

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 
 
 

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