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pentameter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | verse, verse line |
Examples of pentameter
pentameter
Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter.
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I love the rhythm, very much like the iambic pentameter of a Shakespeare play.
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The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
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Part II generally uses pentameter couplets with an interlude of anapestic dimeters.
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Sally Potter's Yes is poignant, profound and performed in perfect iambic pentameter.
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The verse is well-forged and clean-limbed, pulsing along in an unobtrusive pentameter.
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She has stripped the iambic pentameter down to shorter couplets, many of them rhyming.
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Many of these plays were written in verse, particularly iambic pentameter.
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The lyrics may not be iambic pentameter but who cares, they're hilarious.
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- A verse line having five metrical feet
- When poetry consists of five feet in each line, it is written in pentameter. Each foot has a set number of syllables. Iambs, spondees, and trochees are feet consisting of two syllables. ...
- A verse with five poetic feet per line.
- A line with 5 feet; iambic pentameter therefore has 10 syllables (often used by Shakespeare).
- A poetic line of five feet; the most common poetic line in English. Refer to foot and meter.
- A line of verse consisting of five feet
- A line of 10 syllables
