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Pentameter (Ancient Gr****: πεντάμετρος, 'measuring five (feet)') is a
poetic meter. А poem is said to be
written in a
particular pentameter when the lines...
- wide
variety of meters.
Thomas Wyatt, for example,
often mixed iambic pentameters with
other lines of
similar length but
different rhythm.
Henry Howard...
- 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 consists...
- 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...
- regular, metrical, but unrhymed, lines,
almost always composed of
iambic pentameters. Of man's
first disobedience, and the
fruit Of that forbidden...
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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,...
- (1590–96). Each
stanza contains nine
lines in total:
eight lines in
iambic pentameter followed by a
single 'alexandrine' line in
iambic hexameter. The rhyme...
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speaking of birds, there's the
Russian Palooski, /
Whose headski is
redski and
belly is blueski. (Dr. Seuss)
Iambic pentameter Anapestic tetrameter v t e...
- with
stressed syllables coming at
regular intervals (e.g. in
iambic pentameters,
usually every even-numbered syllable). Many
Romance languages use a...
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narrative poetry, and
consisting of a
rhyming pair of
lines in
iambic pentameter. Use of the
heroic couplet was
pioneered by
Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend...
