They usually write poetry in heroic couplets, a polished iambic pentameter line.
In prosody, Chaucer mostly used the ten-syllable line in rhymed couplets (later developed into the most fashionable "heroic couplet " of the 18th century).
A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.
Couplet: Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. A heroic couplet is an iambic pentameter couplet.
In The Legend Of Good Women, he used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter which is to be called later the heroic couplet.
The verse form of heroic couplet was introduced into English poetry and employed in the poem with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Alexander Pope is one of the greatest poets in English Enlightenment and his long heroic couplet, an Essay on Man, is now regarded as an important part of the eighteenth-century literary tradition.
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