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noun
1.
a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
2.
Also called elegiac pentameter. Classical Prosody. a verse consisting of two dactyls, one long syllable, two more dactyls, and another long syllable.
3.
unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse.
adjective
4.
consisting of five metrical feet.
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- And what romanticism did was to set the pentameter minuet aside and try to recover the older, more basic ballad rhythm.
- For her drama students, iambic pentameter competes against the racket of truck deliveries and the aroma of cookies baking.
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pentameter
1546, from M.Fr. pentametre, from L. pentameter, from Gk. pentametros (adj.) "having five measures," from pente "five" + metron "meter" (see meter (2)).
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pentameter
in poetry, a line of verse containing five metrical feet. In English verse, in which pentameter has been the predominant metre since the 16th century, the preferred foot is the iamb-i.e., an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, represented in scansion as .
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