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Pentameter

noun
1.
A verse line having five metrical feet.





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... blank verse—the rhymeless, iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter, introduced into England by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, about 1540—and its proportion to rhyme and to prose have been much used in recent years to determine the chronological order of the plays and the development of the poet's art. In blank ...
— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare
... have it so. No word of song is possible, in that century, to mortal lips. Only polished versification, sententious pentameter and hexameter, until, having turned out its toes long enough without dancing, and pattered with its lips long enough without piping, suddenly Astraea returns to the earth, and a Day of Judgment of a sort, and there ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Pentameter" :   verse line, verse


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