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pentasyllabic

ADJECTIVE
  1. having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables

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  • The later _Heroides_ have two pentasyllabic pentameter-endings, XVI 290 The Last Poems of Ovid
  • For Ovid's use of trisyllabic and pentasyllabic endings, see at ix 26 The Last Poems of Ovid
  • _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
  • = Ovid allows pentasyllabic words to end the pentameter only in the poetry of exile (Platnauer 17). The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Most hymns of this class are in pentasyllabic verses and are the work of the poet Balai (d. about The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • (c. 430) after whom the Syriac pentasyllabic verse is called the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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