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pentameter in the PONS Dictionary

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pentameter [penˈtæmɪtəʳ, Am -ət̬ɚ] N LIT

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The language and metre are on the whole correct, in spite of deviations from classical usage, chiefly in the management of the pentameter.
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The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet.
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Each couplet consist of a hexameter verse followed by a pentameter verse.
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Instead of pentameter, the lines were written in iambic tetrameter.
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This poem is arranged into three stanzas of four lines in iambic tetrameter followed by a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter.
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Also, being written in iambic tetrameter imparts a stronger sense of motion than other sonnets, which use the more common iambic pentameter.
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Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter are commonly known as blank verse.
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Each of these songs is in iambic pentameter, with a concluding rhyming couplet.
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Elegiac meter was considered alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
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The word pentameter indicates that a line has five of these feet.
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