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Pentameter

noun
1.
A verse line having five metrical feet.





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"Pentameter" Quotes from Famous Books



... percentages in columns five, six, and seven. Before 1598, feminine endings never reach twenty per cent of the total number of pentameter lines; after that date they are practically always above that number, and show a fairly steady increase to the thirty-five per cent of The Tempest. The variations of run-on lines (which, of course, carry with them the frequency of pauses within the line, and inversely the growing ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson


Words linked to "Pentameter" :   verse line, verse


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