heroic couplet
noun/həˌrəʊɪk ˈkʌplət/
/həˌrəʊɪk ˈkʌplət/
(specialist)- two lines of poetry one after the other that rhyme and usually contain ten syllables and five stressesTopics Literature and writingc2
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