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  1. In literature, a pair of lines of verse,
  2. usually of the same length and rhymed. The
  3. heroic couplet, consisting of two rhymed
  4. lines in iambic pentameter, was widely
  5. adopted for epic poetry, and was a convention
  6. of both serious and mock-heroic 18th-century
  7. English poetry, as in the work of Alexander
  8. Pope. An example, from Pope's An Essay on
  9. Criticism, is: `A little learning is a
  10. dang'rous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the
  11. Pierian spring'.
  12.