Definition of Pentameters. Meaning of Pentameters. Synonyms of Pentameters

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Definition of Pentameters

Pentameter
Pentameter Pen*tam"e*ter, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? (see Penta-) + ? measure.] (Gr. & L.Pros.) A verse of five feet. Note: The dactylic pentameter consists of two parts separated by a di[ae]resis. Each part consists of two dactyls and a long syllable. The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second. The elegiac distich consists of the hexameter followed by the pentameter. --Harkness.
Pentameter
Pentameter Pen*tam"e*ter, a. Having five metrical feet.

Meaning of Pentameters from wikipedia

- wide variety of meters. Thomas Wyatt, for example, often mixed iambic pentameters with other lines of similar length but different rhythm. Henry Howard...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- poets become extremely strict with pentameters. For example: There is a trend toward the clear separation of the pentameter halves. Catullus, for example,...
- regular, metrical, but unrhymed, lines, almost always composed of iambic pentameters.     Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit     Of that forbidden...
- Macbeth (1978) – National Theatre, Olivier Theatre Hedda Gabler (1998) – Pentameters, Inner London Hay Fever (2016) – Logos Theater Copperfield (2021) – Lauderdale...
- 6TX Hampstead Theatre – Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London, NW3 3EU Pentameters Theatre – 28 Heath Street, Hampstead, London, NW3 6TE Hampstead was once...
- rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters. Each stanza consists of three alternate rhymes and one double rhyme...
- tree with two branches W and S where W = weak and S = strong. Iambic pentameter is one of the most commonly used measures in English and German poetry...