pentameter

• pentametre

From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- +‎ meter.

• IPA^(key): /pɛnˈtæmɪtə(ɹ)/

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pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural pentameters)

1. (poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
   • 1822, Robert Bland, Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, third edition, London: John Robinson, page vi:

     The best verses, more especially pentameters, are written on the principle of attracting and fixing the attention to their close.

2. (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.

• elegiac pentameter
• iambic pentameter

• pentametric

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

• pentametre