Which statements about Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man are accurate? Choose three correct answers.

An Essay on Man is written in heroic couplets: pairs of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter usually has five iambs, or ten syllables, per line, so statements A, C, and E are accurate. The statement about twelve syllables is incorrect, and optimism alone does not establish that the poem uses parallelism.

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