Pope and his fellow eighteenth-century neoclassical (or ‘Augustan’) poets saw how heroic couplets could be used for discursive poetry about weighty moral topics as well as for retelling heroic epic stories.įive years have past five summers, with the length Whether he thinks too little, or too much …Īlexander Pope (1688-1744) also eschewed blank verse in favour of rhymed iambic pentameter: specifically, as with Chaucer, rhyming couplets. In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast īorn but to die, and reas’ning but to err He hangs between in doubt to act, or rest With too much weakness for the stoic’s pride,
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
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