heroic couplet 英雄双韵体.ppt

HEROIC COUPLET（英雄双韵体） Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter. The second line is usually end-stopped. It was common practice to string long sequences of heroic couplets together in a pattern of aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff (and so on). iambic an unstressed/stressed combination of syllables in a metrical foot iambic a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable Example: "The cúrfew tólls the knéll of párting dáy." pentameter a pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet，an iambic pentameter has 10 syllables . Because this practice was especially popular in the Neoclassic Period between 1660 and 1790, the heroic couplet is often called the neoclassic couplet if the poem originates during this time period. Note that "heroic" in this case has nothing to do with subject-matter. * *