1. 7 A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.

2. 4 Heroic couplet refers to two lines of iambic pentameter rhyming with each other.

3. The heroic Couplet is also usually closed, meaning that both lines are end-stopped (by some type of punctuation), and the lines are a self-contained grammatical unit

4. 13 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.

5. A Couplet is “closed” when the lines form a bounded grammatical unit like a sentence (see Dorothy Parker’s “Interview”: “The ladies men admire, I’ve heard, /Would shudder at a wicked word.”).The “heroic Couplet” is written in iambic pentameter and features prominently in the work of 17th- and 18th