A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.
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“It reminded me of Prometheus Bound. Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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