Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1510 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pope's Couplets
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The idea
Pope renders Homer in rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines, the heroic couplet unit eight defined. Homer composed in Greek hexameters and did not rhyme. The form on the page is eighteenth-century English, and it belongs to Pope.
In practice
The couplets are Pope's, not Homer's.
Where people slip
Homer did not rhyme.
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