How To Use Pentameter In A Sentence
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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
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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?
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She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
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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.
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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
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She enclosed a poem of her own composition on the same theme in irregularly rhyming pentameters.
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Propertius 'similar practice: 42 of the 166 quadrisyllable pentameter endings in Propertius are proper names (Platnauer 17).
The Last Poems of Ovid
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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.
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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
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You can hear it pushing against the constraints of the pentameter and the irregular end rhyme.
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This passage is in blank verse, that is, iambic pentameter, which is to say in a five-stress line composed of five 'feet' ( 'penta' means 'five') that move iambically from an unstressed to a stressed syllable: 'And all the clouds that loured upon our house'.
Shakespeare
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= Ovid allows pentasyllabic words to end the pentameter only in the poetry of exile (Platnauer 17).
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Shakespeare's poems are almost entirely written in full pentameter lines.
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_penna_ vs. _pinna_, 28, 203 pentameter endings trisyllabic, 294 quadrisyllabic, 164-166 pentasyllabic, 181-182 perfect subjunctive vs. future perfect indicative forms, 215 polyptoton, Ovid's use of, 278, 378
The Last Poems of Ovid
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You hear clearly how the typical whip-snaps of the first three lines ease into a luxury of praise with the pentameter ‘Beautiful Kate Valk of the Wooster Group,’ despite its two unbeautiful words.
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They sing their tales, including the rape of Proserpina, in dactylic pentameter, as does Orpheus when he charms the king and queen of Hades with his appeal to retrieve Eurydice.
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Single couplets of course form a significant category, as do longer poems composed of rhyming pentameter couplets.
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Ixion" in "Jocoseria," is in alternate hexameter and pentameter, which the author also employs here for the only time; it imitates the turning of the wheel on which Ixion is bound.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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It was translated into English iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets.
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I wrote tons of sonnets, and got really decent at iambic octameter/pentameter.
Mousepoet Diary Entry
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Here is work that manages to be entirely of-the-moment while at every turn it announces not merely an awareness, but an actual confidence with such prosodic traditions as the heroic couplet and the pentameter line.
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Iambs can begin four-beat lines or so-called pentameter lines, which are really six-beat lines.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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iambic pentameter
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When Jim Crow laws ruled the roost, a Temple janitor pecked away at racism with pen and paper, his sword whetted by iambic pentameter.
Temple Daily Telegram News Feed
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Sidestepping the spoken word label, she even pens three sonnets, written in loose pentameter lines.
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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
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Our hearing is indissolubly wedded to five-beat Shakespearean blank verse, usually unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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He allows his lines freedom to expand and shrink from their pentameter norm to accommodate his shifts of style and tone.
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= For Ovid's use of quadrisyllable endings for pentameters, see at ii 10 _Alcinoo_ (p 164).
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet".
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Thus a pattern consisting of five iambs would be an iambic pentameter; a pattern consisting of six dactyls would be a dactylic hexameter; and so on.
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I also left wanting to speak extemporaneously in iambic pentameter, but that is Shagspeare's fault.
Macbeth
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Here is a sudden intensification, even a transposition of senses from the visual to the aural, in the word ‘silent,’ as the poem rounds off in an exact-rhyme couplet, iambic tetrameter stretching into iambic pentameter.
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If you listen to the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
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Yeah, it LOOKS iambic pentameter to me, too, but real medievalist verse types will tell you that it's not; it's something something decasyllabic verse.
Archive 2008-06-01
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As well as one already-known pentameter, nine lines of these verses have been recovered from a papyrus, perhaps dating from the 20s BC, found in 1978 in a fortress in Egyptian Nubia.
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Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen _Heroides_ ends in a disyllable.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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When written in [[English]], both types are in iambic pentameter, that is each line is of five beats (iambs), with the stress on the second syllable in each two-syllable beat.
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All this comes as a prodigal act of supererogation: Merely confronted with Shakespeare's poetic diction and iambic pentameter, few cast members manage to keep their heads above water.
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They began writing in iambic pentameter, or in some other " respectable " verse form.
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= There are twenty trisyllabic pentameter endings in
The Last Poems of Ovid
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By the time he suggests that the verse inclines towards the pentameter, it is clear that it has not occurred to him that the phrasings are of formal significance.
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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.
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_Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.
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English, both types are in iambic pentameter, that is each line is of five beats (iambs), with the stress on the second syllable in each two-syllable beat.
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When you've got a couple of top-five New York Times best sellers under your belt and you want to do a five hundred page exploration of terrorism in iambic pentameter, go for it.
An Interview with Kyle Mills
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I'm going full-out: trochaic octameter (I am too verbose for iambic pentameter) with internal and cross-line rhyme.
MentalPolyphonics
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Did you know I spent ten years writing poetry, refining and refining that little crossword puzzle of an art they call the sonnet until it was an effort not to answer the phone in pentameter?
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Its graceful pentameter couplets express the mid-century fascination with theatrical performance.
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His discussion of iambic pentameter (five stresses to a line, with the stress on the second syllable of each unit) is thorough and contains extensive examples.
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The later _Heroides_ have two pentasyllabic pentameter-endings, XVI 290
The Last Poems of Ovid
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But if you listen at the line carefully, it's a line of regular trochaic pentameter.
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_Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid
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A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
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Actually, the prevailing wisdom that iambic pentameter is somehow ideal for relating the rhythms of English speech seems deeply flawed to me.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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He reads and studies the pentameter of the ancient myths - his favorite are the Welsh myths, and he lists them all and describes them.
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Justice discovered early on a way with trimeters, whose cautious motion fit his muted resolve; pentameters took him longer to master, though by the '80s he had made them his own as well.
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In developing English equivalences for his Italian texts, he turned hendecasyllables into iambic pentameters and septenarii into iambic trimeters.
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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.
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But I hope it shows that what we call iambic pentameter is really, if you count the rest the way you must count it, a kind of slow waltz rhythm.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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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.
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She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
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When he hasn't been saving the world or singing songs with basic rhyming pentameters, he has been involved in a bitter court case with an old stylist who apparently stole clothes from him.
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Trimeter lines predominate, very short dimeter lines punctuate, and against both rise up the comparatively unexpected yet satisfying lengths of the two thoughtful pentameter and hexameter lines.
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Shakespeare often wrote in iambic pentameter, meaning five iambic "feet" per line, each "foot" being a soft-hard syllable pair … da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.
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The poem, in pentameter couplets, describes the funeral ceremonies for Queen Mary the preceding month.
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= For the quadrisyllable ending to the pentameter, see at ii
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Single couplets of course form a significant category, as do longer poems composed of rhyming pentameter couplets.
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Written in iambic pentameter, it is comprised of two stanzas of four lines each, rhyming abab.
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The poem's iambic pentameter is frequently excellent: occasionally perfect regularity becomes a musical metaphor for stateliness, as in line 2.
Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L.
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HABITVRA = is a good instance of the future participle used to express what is inevitably destined to happen (with _Parca_ balancing in the pentameter); for the sense, see Tarrant on Sen _Ag_ 43 'daturus coniugi iugulum suae'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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= The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52,
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The opening line is humorous, touching,and declamatory at one and the same time, its pentameter rhythm sedate and arresting.
