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Recent Examples of pentameterA couple of regional and college theaters are ending their regular seasons in April with Shakespeare plays, and a couple of other events are on tap to keep the iambic pentameter flowing.—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025 Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.—William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 Putting Vice and the Bard in the same sentence sounds sacrilegious, but the movie paints Lynne Cheney as a Lady MacBeth type and requires Adams to recite iambic pentameter about Dick’s capacity to usurp some of George W. Bush’s authority.—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pentameter
This task — writing a poem about a worm in anapestic tetrameter, a very specific and satisfyingly arcane poetic meter — is a challenging one, but ChatGPT was the clear winner, followed by a distant grouping of Bing then Bard.
Both judges advised Elaine to finish her movements completely.
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Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Following its defeat by Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Nationalist movement, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to the island in 1949 as a government in exile.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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