pentameter

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Recent Examples of pentameter A 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
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Noun
  • 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.
    James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
    William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss.
    Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024
Noun
  • Both judges advised Elaine to finish her movements completely.
    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.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025

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