pentameters

With something one is used to having in pentameters, like a sonnet, the effect is of having too much.

Carrion Comfort « Unknowing 2010

Unequal to creative effort he undertook a translation of Racine's 'Phedre' in German pentameters and finished it about the middle of January, 1805.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

Unequal to creative effort he undertook a translation of Racine's 'Phèdre' in German pentameters and finished it about the middle of January, 1805.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

He lets the rhythm sing instead by end-stopping frequently, with many marked caesuras, in short, by judicious rushing and pausing he plays the harp of his common iambic pentameters. from → Poetry

Goliath « Unknowing 2010

Sandy declaimed iambic pentameters to his sled-dogs whenever they waxed mutinous.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

Fortunately, though, verses and iambic pentameters still are able to touch our core and that could not be any more clear thanks to the recent publication of The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky), the poems selected by U.S. Children's Poet Laureate, Mary Ann Hoberman, and cultural anthropologist and teacher, Linda Winston.

Carol Hoenig: Poetry's Decline? 2009

It may seem like that when listening to Senator Obama in full flow-but the reality of campaign management is hardly a question of the easy and unpremeditated flow of iambic pentameters.

Leaders, deputies--and elections 2008

It may seem like that when listening to Senator Obama in full flow-but the reality of campaign management is hardly a question of the easy and unpremeditated flow of iambic pentameters.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

In the movie, Will is as straight and potent as one of his pentameters.

Close-Up On Will 2008

Do come along - and no heckling if I get my pentameters in a muddle.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007