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pentameter

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. pentameter (noun)
  2. dactylic pentameter (noun)
  3. elegiac pentameter (noun)

pen·tam·e·ter

noun \pen-ˈta-mə-tər\

Definition of PENTAMETER

: a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet
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Examples of PENTAMETER

  1. a poem written in iambic pentameter

Origin of PENTAMETER

Latin, from Greek pentametros having five metrical feet, from penta- + metron measure — more at measure
First Known Use: 1580

Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

Rhymes with PENTAMETER

decameter, diameter, heptameter, hexameter, octameter, parameter, tetrameter

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