pentameter

[ UK /pˈɛntɐmˌiːtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a verse line having five metrical feet
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How To Use pentameter In A Sentence

  • It is particularly frequent in the latter half of the pentameter, immediately before the disyllable: compare, from many instances, _AA_ III 431-32 '_ire_ solutis/crinibus et fletus non The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Who else would contrive a poem of 10, 10-line stanzas, each line a brutally regular pentameter, about his father's abandoning the family home 10 days after cutting up a pig into 10 joints?
  • She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
  • The rhythmic cadence of the poetry was not the iambic pentameter or other such metrical patterns but free verse with words scattered randomly across the printed page.
  • By "pentameter" is meant that the line has five feet or measures; by "iambic," that each foot contains two syllables, the first short or unaccented, the second long or accented.] which dominated the fashion of English poetry for the next century. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
  • She enclosed a poem of her own composition on the same theme in irregularly rhyming pentameters.
  • Propertius 'similar practice: 42 of the 166 quadrisyllable pentameter endings in Propertius are proper names (Platnauer 17). The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Although the English meter is properly iambic, often with feminine endings, line length is erratic, ranging from trimeter to pentameter, except for the two shortest lines, which appear in dimeter.
  • May I suggest, that in honouring the promise you made your wife, the sonnet form you choose is the Italian Sonnet form, which is Petrarchan; so obviously will be in iambic pentameter, but the most comfortable and (in my opinion) elegant form: abbacddceffegg. Roses and poems « Write Anything
  • You can hear it pushing against the constraints of the pentameter and the irregular end rhyme.
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