- wide
variety of meters.
Thomas Wyatt, for example,
often mixed iambic pentameters with
other lines of
similar length but
different rhythm.
Henry Howard...
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Pentameter (Ancient Gr****: πεντάμετρος, 'measuring five (feet)') is a term
describing the
meter of a poem. A poem is said to be
written in a particular...
- The
dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in
classical Gr**** and
Latin poetry,
follows a
dactylic hexameter to make up an
elegiac couplet. It features...
- The
Pentameters Theatre was
founded in 1968 and is
still run by
artistic director Leonie Scott-Matthews, a well
known Hampstead resident. It is a 60-seat...
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poets become extremely strict with
pentameters. For example:
There is a
trend toward the
clear separation of the
pentameter halves. Catullus, for example,...
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Macbeth (1978) –
National Theatre,
Olivier Theatre Hedda Gabler (1998) –
Pentameters,
Inner London Hay
Fever (2016) –
Logos Theater Copperfield (2021) – Lauderdale...
- regular, metrical, but unrhymed, lines,
almost always composed of
iambic pentameters. Of man's
first disobedience, and the
fruit Of that forbidden...
- 6TX
Hampstead Theatre – Eton Avenue,
Swiss Cottage, London, NW3 3EU
Pentameters Theatre – 28
Heath Street, Hampstead, London, NW3 6TE
Hampstead was once...
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Ophelia in
Hamlet at
three venues – the
Brixton ****embly Rooms, the
Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead, and the Shaw Theatre. The
proceeds of this production...
- with
stressed syllables coming at
regular intervals (e.g. in
iambic pentameters,
usually every even-numbered syllable). Many
Romance languages use a...
