heroic couplets in a sentence
Examples
- These last poems, written in the heroic couplet, contain some of the finest passages in Drayton's writings.
- His first more elaborate production, " State Dunces ", a satire in heroic couplets, was published in 1733.
- With his emphasis on definitive phrasing through inversion and balance, he prepared the way for the emergence of the heroic couplet.
- Much of Campbell's verse was satirical in heroic couplets, a form otherwise rare in 20th-century English verse.
- Christopher Marlowe published a translation of Book I, while Thomas May followed with a complete translation into heroic couplets in 1626.
- John Dryden in the 16 17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.
- I surmised that it would be imprudent for me to permit iambic pentameters, heroic couplets or Dionysian dithyrambs to creep into my newspaper work.
- The poem is written in heroic couplets, and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America.
- And as if to underscore the point, it is written _ with a-hard-to-fathom audacity _ entirely in heroic couplets.
- I m sure no one wants to keep spouting heroic couplets over fluffy footwear until the discussion reaches some kind of Rape of the Lock absurdity.