IV of " The Life of Our Blessed Lord " he incorporated a whole passage of Milton's blank verse in the midst of his heroic couplets.
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Following the publication of " Nosce Teipsum ", other poets in the English language also began to break free from the heroic couplet in their longer works.
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It is owing to this, in part, that the heroic couplet is so often required to give, in translation, the full value of a single Homeric hexameter.
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Tate also translated " Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus ", Girolamo Fracastoro's Latin pastoral poem on the subject of the disease of syphilis, into English heroic couplets.
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These poems, which are in rhyming stanzas ( each consisting of three heroic couplets ), versify scripture . " The Olde Worldes Tragedie " is the story of the flood.
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John Dryden and his contemporaries and followers likewise occasionally employed them as the second ( rarely the first ) line of heroic couplets, or even more distinctively as the third line of a triplet.
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Rhyme, " a a a "; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.
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Tolkien chose to compose the poem in heroic couplets, the preferred metre of British Enlightenment poets, as it was attacking the proponents of progress ( " progressive apes " ) on their own turf:
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The next significant translation was by George Sandys, produced from 1621 6, which set the poem in heroic couplets, a metre that would subsequently become dominant in vernacular English epic and in English translations.
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""'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady "'" is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his " Works " of 1717.
