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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

hero′ic cou′plet, [Pros.]

Poetrya stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, esp. 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.

1900–05

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heroic couplet

a verse form consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

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