What (who) is pentameter - definition
METER CONSISTING OF FIVE METRICAL FEET
pentameter
Similar to a centameter, but with five sides.
The mayor's office decided that pentameters would be the standard unit of measure for all four-dimentional objects because those hundred-sided centameters won't work.
The mayor's office decided that pentameters would be the standard unit of measure for all four-dimentional objects because those hundred-sided centameters won't work.
pentameter
(pentameters)
In literary criticism, a pentameter is a line of poetry that has five strong beats in it. (TECHNICAL)
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Pentameter
·noun A verse of five feet.
II. Pentameter ·adj Having five metrical feet.
Wikipedia
Pentameter
Pentameter (Ancient Greek: πεντάμετρος, 'measuring five (feet)') is a poetic meter. А poem is said to be written in a particular pentameter when the lines of the poem have the length of five feet, where a 'foot' is a combination of a particular number (1 or 2) of unstressed (or weak) syllables and a stressed (or strong) syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be iambic (one of three two-syllable meters alongside trochaic and spondaic) or dactylic (one of two three-syllable meters alongside anapestic).
Pronunciation examples for pentameter
1. pentameter next, okay.
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2. Someone will ask him to create poetry in iambic pentameter.
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3. and you're expected for it to be in iambic pentameter sometimes.
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4. and I learned that iambic pentameter is and why it sounds so good to human ears.
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Examples of use of pentameter
1. Operation Pentameter has also led to more than 50 arrests of suspected human traffickers.
2. Okay, so I‘m no Shakespeare –– I never could get iambic pentameter.
3. Missing is the thump–THUMP of iambic pentameter and the end–rhyme scheme.
4. The raids came under the umbrella of Operation Pentameter, a nationwide campaign launched to help women trafficked into the country.
5. All 55 police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland are taking part in Operation Pentameter, which is being co–ordinated by the Association of Chief Police Officers.