heroic couplet

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   a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style

   Broadercouplet

Questions about heroic couplet

What does heroic couplet mean?

heroic couplet means "a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style".

Is heroic couplet a common word?

heroic couplet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.