Women of Adamant, fair neophytes— Who thirst for such instruction as we give, Attend, while I unfold a parable. The elephant is
mightier than Man, Yet Man subdues him. Why? The elephant Is elephantine everywhere but here (tapping her forehead) And Man, whose brain is to the elephant’s As Woman’s brain to Man’s—(that’s rule of three),— Conquers the foolish giant of the woods, As Woman, in her turn, shall conquer Man. This excerpt is an example of heroic couplet. free verse. common meter. blank verse.
The excerpt given above is an example of heroic couplet. Heroic couplet is a traditional form of English poetry; it is typically used in epic and narrative poetry, it is made up of rhyming pair of lines in iambic parameters, that is, there are five ambic feet on each line.
