“英雄雙韻體”(Heroic Couplet),是壹種英國古典詩體,由喬叟首創。由十音節演化而來,每行五個音步(foot),每個音步有兩個音節(syllable),第壹個是輕音,第二個是重音.
In prosody, Chaucer mostly used the ten-syllable line in rhymed couplets (later developed into the most fashionable "heroic couplet " of the 18th century).
從體裁上說,喬叟多用每行十音節、雙行壹尾韻的詩體(後來演化為18世紀風行的英雄雙韻體)。
Heroic Couplet(英雄雙韻體)refers to lines of iambic pentameter which rhyme in pairs: aa, bb, cc, and so on.
Iambic- the rhythm of a foot is a weak beat/sound followed by a strong beat.
This verse form was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. From the age of John Dryden through that of Samuel Johnson, the heroic couplet was the predominant English measure for all the poetic kinds; some poets, including Alexander Pope, used it almost to the exclusion of other meters.
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