pentameter

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At iii 44, where a pentameter has been lost, B and C omit the line, while the other manuscripts, including M_, have the interpolation indigus effectus omnibus ipse magis_; F has the separate interpolation Achillas Pharius abstulit ense caput_, also found in Heinsius' fragmentum Louaniense_.

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  1. noun A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
  2. noun English verse composed in iambic pentameter.

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  • A detached pentameter, echoing out of nowhere, was beating in her ears—seven marching feet—a pentameter and a half To that still centre where the spinning world Sleeps on its axis Had she made it or remembered it? —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • Had it been pentameter, or 127 MARTHA GRIMES something, it would have been harder. —  dirty duck.htm
  • "People don't expect their licensed financial adviser to call up about the latest in iambic pentameter," Mr. Katsman says. —  A Mother in Israel
  • Shakespeare Behind Bars, calling it a "brave film" and adding, "There's something powerful about convicts speaking in iambic pentameter, and letting their passions seep in to the words." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Shakespeare often writes in iambic pentameter, especially in his sonnets. —  LearnHub Activities
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  1. Latin, from Greek pentametros : penta-, penta- + metron, measure; see meter1.

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  1. from Latin pentameter, from Greek πενταμέτρος, of five measures, from πέντε, five, + μέτρον, a measure, meter: see meter.
 

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/pɛnˈtæmɛtər/
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