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What is the couplet pattern in both ""The Author to Her Book"" and ""A Hymn to the Evening""?

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"The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet and "A Hymn to the Evening" by Phillis Wheatley are two different poems with different couplet patterns.

"The Author to Her Book" is written in iambic pentameter and consists of rhyming couplets (two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme), with a pattern of AA BB CC, and so on.

Example: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad, expos'd to publick view,"

"A Hymn to the Evening" is also written in iambic pentameter, but it consists of heroic couplets (rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter). The couplet pattern in this poem is AA BB CC DD, and so on.

Example: "Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr's wing, Exhales the incense of the blooming spring."

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