Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
Correct answer: A. the heroic couplet
- A. the heroic couplet
- B. blank verse
- C. free verse
- D. the ode
Explanation
Alexander Pope brought the heroic couplet to exceptional polish and control, making it the characteristic verse form of much eighteenth-century neoclassical poetry. A heroic couplet consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.
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