How does Pope’s use of verse in An Essay on Man reinforce Enlightenment ideals?

Pope writes An Essay on Man in heroic couplets—pairs of rhyming lines, often shaped by a regular meter. Their symmetry and order reflect the Enlightenment emphasis on balance, reason, and an orderly universe. This makes “heroic couplets emphasize the importance of balance, order, and rationality” the best answer; the poem’s form does not primarily argue that human reason is limited or that art outweighs scientific analysis.

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