pentameter

English

Alternative forms

pentametre

Etymology

From Middle French pentamètre.

Noun

pentameter (plural pentameters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
(poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.

Derived terms

Related terms

pentametric

Translations

line in a poem

Finnish: pentametri (fi)

German: Fünfheber m

poetic metre

Finnish: pentametri (fi)

German: Fünfheber m

See also

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

Anagrams

pentametre

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