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  • adjective Relating to or exhibiting pentameter.

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Examples

  • In addition to the cool sense of what appears to be no more than a pentametric arrangement of common-places there is a rhythm which admirably conveys, independently of what is being actually said, the gentle perambulating of the eighteenth-century philosopher in the garden which Candide retired to cultivate in the best of all possible worlds.

    Rudyard Kipling Palmer, John 1915

  • In addition to the cool sense of what appears to be no more than a pentametric arrangement of common-places there is

    Rudyard Kipling John Palmer 1914

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