Heroic Couplets






Form: A minimum of ten heroic (iambic pentameter) couplets.

Theme: The retelling of or the sequel to a famous tale from the Brothers Grimm, Greek myth, or the Bible, or the "missing moment" in a well-known narrative. Your version of the tale should be differently stressed or weighted than the original. 

Restriction: At least half of the rhyme pairs must be made up of different parts of speech (nouns rhymed with something other than nouns, etc.).

Read: 

In Strand and Boland: Wheatley (127), Goldsmith (128), Pope (129), Browning (130), Gunn (133)

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto I
Eliot, Journey of the Magi

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