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Definition of Pentasyllabic
1. Adjective. Having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables.
Definition of Pentasyllabic
1. Adjective. Having five syllables. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentasyllabic
Literary usage of Pentasyllabic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts by Frederick Victor Dickins (1906)
"Almost all the lays consist of alternate pentasyllabic and ... except that in
the latter the verses were not alternating, but all pentasyllabic or all ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Oniy, when St. Ephrem composed hymns in the same pentasyllabic metre and had them
sung to the same tunes as the psalms of ..."
3. A Spanish Anthology: A Collection of Lyrics from the Thirteenth Century Down by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1901)
"This is a five-syllabled (pentasyllabic) une of dactyls, in which it is required
that the first and fourth syllables be accented, and that the second and ..."
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