WHY THE HECK ARE HEROIC COUPLETS IMPORTANT??? WHAT DO THEY SIGNIFY??? WHY WOULD ALEXANDER POPE PREFER THEM???
I DON’T KNOW AND I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR OVER AN HOUR BUT EVERYONE JUST SAYS “ALEXANDER POPE MADE THEM FASHIONABLE”.
BUT WHY.
WHY?????
sometimes screaming about something yields embarrassingly instant results, so for anyone who care, this is an excellent (albeit dated website) article on rhyming couplets from the National Humanities Society.