单词 | heroic couplet |
释义 | heroic coupletnoun Prosody.a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man. Origin of heroic coupletFirst recorded in 1900–05 Words nearby heroic coupletHerodias, Herodotus, Herod the Great, heroic, heroic age, heroic couplet, heroic drama, heroicize, heroicomic, heroic poem, heroic quatrain Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for heroic coupletheroic couplet nounprosody a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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