heroic couplet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter, used in epic poetry.
Example Sentences
- "Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet. It moved into most forms of drama. Yet the heroic couplet held its own as a vehicle for meditative and satiric poetry and, until Miltons example took hold some half-century after his death, as a vehicle for narrative poetry also."