pentameter
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*pénkʷe |
From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.
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pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural pentameters)
- (poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
- 1822, Robert Bland, Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, third edition, London: John Robinson, page vi:
- The best verses, more especially pentameters, are written on the principle of attracting and fixing the attention to their close.
- (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
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line in a poem
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poetic metre
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See also edit
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)