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heroic couplet: see pentameter pentameter (pĕntăm`ətər) [Gr.,=measure of five], in prosody, a line to be scanned in five feet (see versification ). ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Changing forms from free verse to heroic couplets and other poetic devices as suits the story, She Alone encapsulates its nameless protagonist's struggle to find her own sense of place and identity in a rapidly evolving world. Changing forms from free verse to heroic couplets and other poetic devices as suits the story, She Alone encapsulates its nameless protagonist's struggle to find her own sense of place and identity in a rapidly evolving world. His target in the Dunciad is his era's epidemic of bad writing - here, wrong-headed metaphors - and he doesn't just describe them, he writes them; yet simultaneously he can't help but produce heroic couplets of supernal elegance. |
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