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| has gloss | (noun) a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style heroic couplet |
| has gloss | eng: A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme is always masculine. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales . Chaucer is also widely credited with first extensive use of iambic pentameter. |
| lexicalization | eng: Heroic couplets |
| lexicalization | eng: heroic couplet |
| subclass of | (noun) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed couplet |
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| Czech | |
| has gloss | ces: Hrdinské dvojverší (také heroické dvojverší) je tradiční forma a strofa anglické poezie, většinou užívaná v epice. |
| lexicalization | ces: Hrdinské dvojverší |
| Italian | |
| has gloss | ita: Un distico eroico è una forma tradizionale della poesia Inglese, comunemente usato per la poesia epica e la poesia narrativa, e si riferisce ai poemi costruiti con sequenze di coppie di linee in pentametro giambico. La rima è sempre una rima maschile. L'uso del distico eroico è stato introdotto da Geoffrey Chaucer nella Leggende delle Buone Donne e nei Racconti di Canterbury. |
| lexicalization | ita: distico eroico |
| Japanese | |
| has gloss | jpn: ヒロイック・カプレット（heroic couplet, 英雄対句、英雄対韻句、英雄対連、英雄詩体、英雄詩体二行連句、英雄二行詩）は英文学の詩に使われる伝統的な詩形。一般に、叙事詩や物語詩に使われる。 |
| lexicalization | jpn: ヒロイック・カプレット |
| Dutch | |
| has gloss | nld: Het heroic couplet is een versvorm die met name in de Engelse poëzie tot bloei kwam in de tweede helft van de 17e en de eerste helft van de 18e eeuw. Hoewel de versvorm al werd geïntroduceerd door Geoffrey Chaucer in onder meer de Canterbury Tales en ook door William Shakespeare in wat lossere vorm werd toegepast, waren het met name John Dryden en Alexander Pope die de vorm tot bloei brachten en veelvuldig toepasten in hun epische gedichten. |
| lexicalization | nld: heroic couplet |
| Russian | |
| has gloss | rus: Героический стих — стих, употреблявшийся в героических или эпических произведениях, например гекзаметр, александрийский стих ложноклассических трагедий (шестистопный ямб); в Англии и Италии героический стих называют и пятистопный ямб, в России и Польше — силлабический тринадцатисложник и т. д. |
| lexicalization | rus: Героический стих |
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