Crossword clues for pentameter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pentameter \Pen*tam"e*ter\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? (see Penta-) + ? measure.] (Gr. & L.Pros.) A verse of five feet.
Note: The dactylic pentameter consists of two parts separated
by a di[ae]resis. Each part consists of two dactyls and
a long syllable. The spondee may take the place of the
dactyl in the first part, but not in the second. The
elegiac distich consists of the hexameter followed by
the pentameter.
--Harkness.
Pentameter \Pen*tam"e*ter\, a. Having five metrical feet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context poetry English) A line in a poem having five metrical feet. 2 (context poetry English) poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
WordNet
n. a verse line having five metrical feet
Wikipedia
Pentameter (from Greek: - 'measuring five ( feet)') is a poetic meter. А poem is said to be written in (a particular) pentameter when the lines of the poem have the length of five feet, where 'foot' is a combination of a particular number (1 or 2) of unstressed (or weak) syllables and a stressed (or strong) syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be iambic (one of three two-syllable meters alongside trochaic and spondaic) or dactylic (one of two three-syllable meters alongside anapestic) (see links below).
This class of meters includes:
- the dactylic pentameter of antiquity
- the iambic pentameter of the modern period
Usage examples of "pentameter".
Iambic pentameter was a symmetrical meter based on the sacred Illuminati numbers of 5 and 2!
A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.
He heard the rhythms of iambic pentameter and chanting, Hieros Gamos and sacred rites, resonating with the rumble of the jet.
Applying the fourth canto of the Tennyson Principle, we lambed the yeats with a loaded shelley and sonneted the poe plathing woman with a dose of pentameter frost.
He customarily lay in bed until noon meditating pentameters on sunrise.
For instance, in the view of some critics, literary realism carries with it an implicit validation of conservative social structures: for others, the formal and metrical intricacies of the sonnet and the iambic pentameter are a counterpart of social stability, decorum, and order.
And after considering for a moment, I wrote the following pentameter 'Disce quod a domino nomina servus habet.
A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.
He heard the rhythms of iambic pentameter and chanting, Hieros Gamos and sacred rites, resonating with the rumble of the jet.
This play is archaic in spots, and people dont talk in iambic pentameter.
Thankfully, this unnatural simulation of nature had been designed for relatively easy navigation by culture-seeking Starfleet drones already wrestling with the pitfalls and perplexities of iambic pentameter, so it was not nearly as clotted with underbrush and difficult to traverse as a real jungle would be.
And then last night he'd beaten Vanilla Ice by a pentameter in the poetry slam at Warehaus 57.
This work consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, incorporating allusions to the Heisman Trophy and Hertz Rent-a-Car, and ends with the prosodically unimpeachable couplet "He's learned the cruelest lesson of them all—/ Celebrity does not prevent a fall.
For centuries, iambic pentameter had been a preferred poetic meter of outspoken literati across the globe, from the ancient Greek writer Archilochus to Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Voltaire-bold souls who chose to write their social commentaries in a meter that many of the day believed had mystical properties.