iambic pentameter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

Examples
“To bé, or nót to bé, that ís the quéstion” (Hamlet)

iambic pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural iambic pentameters)

1. A poetic meter consisting of lines with five iambic feet each, meaning the even syllables are dominant.
   • 2023 October 21, Kate Maltby, “Brute force”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

     Yet he didn't recommend Wilson, even though she has undertaken to capture the poem's aural grandeur by rendering it as iambic pentameter. (Nothing signals canonical like employing Shakespeare's favourite meter.)

Translations

a poetic meter

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抑揚格五音步詩／抑扬格五音步诗 (yìyánggé wǔyīnbù shī)

• Esperanto: kvinjambo
• Finnish: jambinen pentametri
• French: pentamètre iambique m
• German: jambischer Fünfheber m
• Italian: pentametro giambico m
• Polish: pentametr jambiczny
• Portuguese: pentâmetro iâmbico (pt) m
• Romanian: pentametru iambic
• Spanish: pentámetro yámbico m
• Swedish: jambisk pentameter
• Turkish: beşli ölçü