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heroic couplet
heroic couplet: see pentameter.
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Opera: And here, with the latest news - sung to you in heroic couplets - is... the opera composer
Jan 23, 1998; Opera? It's just a load of nonsense about dead Greek heroes, gypsy girls and thwarted lovers. Well, not since John Adams gave...
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HEROIC COUPLETS
Aug 15, 1996; The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-15-1996 HEROIC COUPLETS Date: 08-15-1996, Thursday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- 3...
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heroic couplet
Jan 01, 2004; heroic couplet, a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines:Let Observation with extensive View Survey Mankind, from China to...
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couplet
Jan 01, 2004; couplet [ kup ‐lit], a pair of rhyming verse lines, usually of the same length; one of the most widely used...
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closed couplet
Jan 01, 2004; closed couplet, two lines of metrical verse in which the syntax and sense come to a conclusion or a strong pause at the end of...
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