Usually means: Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
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  1. heroic couplet: Merriam-Webster
  2. heroic couplet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heroic couplet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heroic couplet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heroic couplet: Vocabulary.com
  6. heroic couplet: Wiktionary
  7. heroic couplet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. heroic couplet: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. heroic couplet: Dictionary.com
  10. Heroic couplet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. heroic couplet: Rhymezone
  12. heroic couplet: FreeDictionary.org
  13. heroic couplet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. heroic couplet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. heroic couplet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. HEROIC COUPLET: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. heroic couplet: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter, used in epic poetry.

Similar:
elegiac, riding rhyme, heroic, heroic verse, elegiack, verse, iambelegus, leonine, strophe, Pythian verse, more...

Opposite:
prose, blank verse, free verse

Adjectives:
trochaic, sapphic, duple, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, elegiac, catalectic, choliambic, alexandrine, iambic, dipodic

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Similar:
elegiac, riding rhyme, heroic, heroic verse, elegiack, verse, iambelegus, leonine, strophe, Pythian verse, more...

Opposite:
prose, blank verse, free verse

Adjectives:
trochaic, sapphic, duple, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, elegiac, catalectic, choliambic, alexandrine, iambic, dipodic



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