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pentameter

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pen·tam·e·ter  (pn-tm-tr)
n.
1. A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
2. English verse composed in iambic pentameter.
[Latin, from Greek pentametros : penta-, penta- + metron, measure; see meter1.]
pentameter [pɛnˈtæmɪtə]
n
1. (Literature / Poetry) a verse line consisting of five metrical feet
2. (Literature / Poetry) (in classical prosody) a verse line consisting of two dactyls, one stressed syllable, two dactyls, and a final stressed syllable
adj
(Literature / Poetry) designating a verse line consisting of five metrical feet
pentameter
a verse of five metrical feet.
See also: Verse
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Noun1.pentameter - a verse line having five metrical feet
verse line, verse - a line of metrical text
Translations
pentameter [penˈtæmɪtəʳ] N → pentámetro m
pentameter
n → Pentameter m
pentameter [pɛntˈæmɪtəʳ] n → pentametro
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Even so, several of them do not really belong to the series; composed in stanza forms, they are selected from his earlier poems and here pressed into service, and on the average they are less excellent than those which he wrote for their present places (in the rimed pentameter couplet that he adopted from the French).
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Your stool limps like one of Martial's distiches; it has one hexameter leg and one pentameter leg.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
 
 
 
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