HEROIC COUPLET.
In: New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics; 1993, p522-524, 3p
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The article presents a definition of the term HEROIC COUPLET. A rhyming pair of Eng. heroic (that is, iambic pentameter) lines, most often used for epigrams, verse essays, satires, and narrative verse, and the dominant form for Eng. poetry from ca. 1640 to ca. 1790. The English created the h. c. in the 16th c. by imposing a regular iambic stress pattern and a regular caesura (falling normally after the fourth, fifth, or sixth syllable) on the old Chaucerian decasyllabic line and by imposing on the Chaucerian couplet (called "riding rhyme" by Puttenham and Gascoigne) a regular hierarchy of pauses-respectively, caesural, first-line, and end-of-couplet-adapted from the Lat. elegiac distich.
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HEROIC COUPLET.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | W.B.P. |
Quelle: | New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics; 1993, p522-524, 3p |
Veröffentlichung: | 1993 |
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ISBN: | 978-0-691-02123-2 (print) |
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