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Definition of Pentameters
1. pentameter [n] - See also: pentameter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentameters
Literary usage of Pentameters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"The stron wish of scholars was to write in hexameters an pentameters: the course
of English thought, however, turned our poetry in one current. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"RHYMED HEXAMETERS AND pentameters. [THIS species of versification, consisting of
rhymed Hexameter and Pentameter lines, we do not remember to have seen ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and elegiac pentameters, which may be divided into smaller parts and interchange
with one another ..."
4. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"pentameters. Andromeda. These lame hexam | eters the ] strong winged | music
of | | Homer! No—but a | most bur | lesque 11 barbarous | experi | ment. ..."
5. The Principles of English Verse by Charlton Miner Lewis (1906)
"CHAPTER IV •Rimed pentameters RIMED verse is easier to write satisfactorily than
blank verse, because the ear, when cajoled by rime at the ends of the lines ..."
6. Y Cymmrodor edited by Thomas Powel, Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1904)
"tenth or perhaps the ninth century. Westwood calls the letters "very debased
Hiberno-Saxon characters". iii. pentameters AND HALF pentameters. 23. ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... hexameters and pentameters, of which the final aud middle syllables rhyme; so
called from ... pentameters ..."
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