Heroic couplet

/hɪɹˈəʊɪk kˈʌplət/

/hɪɹˈoʊɪk kˈʌplət/

[noun]

Heroic couplet

[NOUN]

a pair of rhymed verses, consisting of ten syllables and five stresses, or an iambic pentameter

Examples

1. It's not a rhyme word, and so it doesn't constitute the end of a unit of sense as a rhyme word would in most heroic couplets.

2. Those are plays though, and all English narrative poems, including all of Shakespeare's narrative poems, they had all been written in rhyme, either long verse paragraphs of rhymed heroic couplets or in intricately rhymed stanzas.