pentameter

English

Alternative forms

• pentametre

Noun

pentameter (plural pentameters)

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

Derived terms

• iambic pentameter

Translations

line in a poem

• Finnish: pentametri (fi)

poetic metre

• Finnish: pentametri (fi)

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter, triskaidecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}