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English heroic couplets, especially in Dryden and his followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.
Often these two variations are used together to heighten a climax.
The breaking of the regular pattern of rhyming pentameter pairs brings about a sense of poetic closure.
Here are three examples from Book IV of Dryden's translation of the Aeneid.

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