pentameter

Meter consisting of five metrical feet

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Subclass of: meter

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Pentameter is a term describing the meter of a poem. A poem is said to be written in a particular pentameter when the lines of the poem have the length of five metrical feet. A metrical foot is, in classical poetry, a combination of two or more short or long syllables in a specific order; although this "does not provide an entirely reliable standard of measurement" in heavily accented Germanic languages such as English. In these languages it is defined as a combination of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables in a specific order.

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Follows: tetrameter
Followed by: hexameter
Has part(s) of the class: foot (Literature) quantity: 5

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