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10/15/25(Wed)04:05:10 No.24802389

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Do enjambments belong in heroic couplet? Doesn't it go against the whole point?

Anonymous
10/15/25(Wed)04:15:29 No.24802399

Anonymous 10/15/25(Wed)04:15:29 No.24802399

>>24802389
Obviously it cannot be used as commonly as in blank verse but I think most poets use enjambment in heroic couplets. Otherwise it would be too sing-song and unnecessarily restrict the possibilities of speech.

Anonymous
10/15/25(Wed)11:43:27 No.24802961

Anonymous 10/15/25(Wed)11:43:27 No.24802961

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>>24802389
Chapman uses them all the time to impart momentum to the narrative, and it works brilliantly.
In fact, couplets can sound rather twee after a while without something to shake them up.

Anonymous
10/15/25(Wed)12:50:30 No.24803063

Anonymous 10/15/25(Wed)12:50:30 No.24803063

>>24802961
Chapman didn't write "heroic couplets", which are, be definition, unenjambed. He wrote what were called "riding rhymes".

Anonymous
10/15/25(Wed)17:29:09 No.24803622

Anonymous 10/15/25(Wed)17:29:09 No.24803622

>>24803063
>Chapman didn't write "heroic couplets", which are, be definition, unenjambed.
Wow I didn't know Pope didn't write heroic couplets.

Anonymous
10/15/25(Wed)17:44:08 No.24803642

Anonymous 10/15/25(Wed)17:44:08 No.24803642

>>24802389
>Doesn't it go against the whole point?
in the 17th/18thC heroic couplet verse i've read they love to stylishly deploy the occasional three-line rhyme or line of iambic hexameter, and the same goes for enjambment