Is anyone even capable of writing poetry like this anymore?
>>25206632I can.
>>25206640That’s cool, I believe you.
>>25206642Give me a topic, and I'll write some heroic couplets for you.
>>25206632Anyone can write heroic couplets man, it's not that hard
>>25206651Making them insightful and not lame is the hard part.
>>25206646I believe you, you don’t have to.Okay: a pious man faces a dilemma that torments him; should he fall into sin by giving into lust with a hot coworker? Or does he travel home to care for his sick wife who also takes him for granted, treating him poorly? Go.
>>25206651Be our guest anon
>>25206651>Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze,">In the next line it "whispers through the trees">If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep">The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep"Take heed.
>>25206677Pope's kind of heroic couplets (as opposed to Chaucer's) works better for didactic poetry, rather than narrative. I'd rather write Miltonic blank verse if I'm writing a story. So the poem is in the form of an epistle addressed to the man in question.>Whether to hold fast to the woman wed,>Or loosely to defile the marriage bed,>That Juno or that Venus o'er thee lords,>Thou man of wife or lover, heed my words. Do you want more?
