Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century.
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Additionally, the age also developed the mock-heroic couplet.
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This form of the heroic couplet would become a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer.
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At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry, and Pope's most ambitious work.
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Following the publication of Nosce Teipsum, other poets in the English language also began to break free from the heroic couplet in their longer works.
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His most famous poem, Nosce Teipsum, was reprinted numerous times, and was one of the first English poems to use the decasyllabic quatrain instead of the heroic couplet for a poem of its scope.