Definitions of heroic couplet
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a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated styletype of:coupleta stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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Lesson 1
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