heroic couplet
US /hɪˌroʊ.ɪk ˈkʌp.lət/
UK /hɪˌroʊ.ɪk ˈkʌp.lət/
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英雄雙行體
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used in English verse in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Alexander Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.
亞歷山大·蒲柏是英雄雙行體的大師。
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Many of Shakespeare's sonnets end with a heroic couplet.
莎士比亞的許多十四行詩都以英雄雙行體結尾。