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Recent Examples of pentameter
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.
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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
Think fast Iambic pentameter this is not, but Carpenter’s schtick of cheeky, PG-13 rhymes showed off a pop star who isn’t afraid to laugh, especially at her own expense.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
Heffernan, who was raised in southwest Detroit, was known for pushing the boundaries of traditional poetic forms such as sonnets, sestinas and iambic pentameters, infusing them with everyday conversational tones and theological depth.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
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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
Think fast Iambic pentameter this is not, but Carpenter’s schtick of cheeky, PG-13 rhymes showed off a pop star who isn’t afraid to laugh, especially at her own expense.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
Heffernan, who was raised in southwest Detroit, was known for pushing the boundaries of traditional poetic forms such as sonnets, sestinas and iambic pentameters, infusing them with everyday conversational tones and theological depth.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pentameter
Noun
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Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.—
William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.—
Laurent Dubreuil,
Harper's Magazine,
22 May 2024
Noun
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Job losses, higher consumer prices, and emissions leakage as goods movement relocates to states with fewer regulations but higher pollution levels.—
Timothy Jemal,
Oc Register,
16 Aug. 2025
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Although the temperance movement of the 19th and 20th centuries often distorted its meaning by associating it with alcohol abstinence, its component behaviors have stood the test of time.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Pentameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pentameter. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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