PENTAMETER

Pentameter

Pentameter is a poetic meter. А poem is said to be written in pentameter when the lines of the poem have the length of five feet, one foot being a combination of a particular number of unstressed, or weak, syllables and a stressed, or strong syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be, for example, iambic or dactylic .

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pentameter

Noun

  1. A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
  2. Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.


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