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Pagina 51
... Heroic Couplet The heroic couplet1 has a longer ancestry than blank verse , since it was introduced into English literature by Chaucer . It has been used 1 The heroic metre of classical literature was the dactylic hexameter , as used ...
... Heroic Couplet The heroic couplet1 has a longer ancestry than blank verse , since it was introduced into English literature by Chaucer . It has been used 1 The heroic metre of classical literature was the dactylic hexameter , as used ...
Pagina 52
... Heroic verse , it must be noted , is constituted by the rhyming distich or couplet , not by the single line . Occasionally a grouping of three rhyming lines is permitted . Chaucer's use of the heroic couplet in The Canterbury Tales ...
... Heroic verse , it must be noted , is constituted by the rhyming distich or couplet , not by the single line . Occasionally a grouping of three rhyming lines is permitted . Chaucer's use of the heroic couplet in The Canterbury Tales ...
Pagina 196
... heroic convention derived from France that " heroic metre " should be used , that is the rhymed five - foot iambic couplet , the nearest possible English equivalent to the French rhymed alexandrines . Dryden defended his use of rhyme in ...
... heroic convention derived from France that " heroic metre " should be used , that is the rhymed five - foot iambic couplet , the nearest possible English equivalent to the French rhymed alexandrines . Dryden defended his use of rhyme in ...
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