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Definition of Pentameter
1. Noun. A verse line having five metrical feet.
Definition of Pentameter
1. n. A verse of five feet.
2. a. Having five metrical feet.
Definition of Pentameter
1. Noun. (poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet. ¹
2. Noun. (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pentameter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentameter
Literary usage of Pentameter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"CHAPTER V IAMBIC pentameter I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my
day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of ..."
2. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"CHAPTER V IAMBIC pentameter I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my
day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of ..."
3. Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Archaeological Institute of America (1888)
"pentameter. u IV tu ou 3 4 - 4 - 7 •Л 7 20 5 22 These proportions, ... In the
pentameter, the absolute exclusion of the shortening from the second and fifth ..."
4. Y Cymmrodor edited by Thomas Powel, Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1904)
"Thus far of the uses made of the hexameter in its Welsh form: next comes the
pentameter, the use of which in the structure of the englyn has been ..."
5. The Elements of English Versification by James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller (1910)
"THE pentameter 18. A verse that contains five feet is called a pentameter ...
iambic pentameter is known as blank verse: So all day long the noise of battle ..."
6. A Latin Grammar by Charles Edwin Bennett (1908)
"The Dactylic pentameter consists of two parts, each of which contains two ...
The pentameter is never used alone, but only in connection with the Hexameter. ..."
7. Latin Prosody Made Easy. by John Carey (1808)
"Sometimes entire poems were composed in pentameter verse, as, for instance, ...
pentameter (so called, no doubt, ..."
8. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"HEXAMETER AND pentameter. Soon are the loud tones mute, all dying away in the
distance, While the low song of the heart pierce* the portal of heaven. ..."
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