Monday 30 March 2015

Poetic Term: Heroic couplet, Rhyme royal, Ottava rima

Heroic couplet: Two line of rhymed iambic pentameter is known as heroic couplet - a a bb cc and so on . The term heroic is applied to it in the late 17th century when the frequent use of such couplets formed the heroic poems or epical poems andd heroic dramas.


In English Chaucer is the innovator whose the Legend of Good women and must of The Canterbury Tales are written in the rhyme style. The other masters are Alexander Pope, Dryden, and Samuel Johnson etc.......
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