The Heroic Couplet

Absalom and Achitophel achieved Amores antithesis articulated assertion audience balance Ben Jonson caesura Chaucer clause closed couplet conversational couplet practice course defined definition Denham discourse distich Donne Donne's doth Drayton Dryden dynamics elegiac couplet elegiac distich Elegy elements English couplet enjambed epigrams Epistle Essay example eyes Falkland Fame George Sandys give grace half-line Hero and Leander heroic couplet hexameter impression instance inversion J. V. Cunningham John Marston Jonson King Latin line references correspond line-defined lines and couplets Lord lucid Marlowe Marston Martial ment metrical mid-line pause mihi modified movement Muse nature notice oblique couplet Oldham Ovid Ovid's Ovidian parallel passage pattern persistent plet poem poet's poetic poetry poets political Pope Pope's praise Prologue rhetorical rhyme Sandys satiric second line segments sense social speaker stiff style syntactic thee thou thought tibi tion utterance verb verse Waller