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Grammar : Noun

Définition of iambic pentameter

noun a meter in poetry

Example sentences :

It must consist of exactly fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester

The meter is iambic pentameter; but the first foot of the second line is a trochee, and emphasizes thoughts with fine effect.
Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter

Unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter measure, is known as blank verse.
Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter

The sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of fourteen iambic pentameter lines.
Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter

The average quatrain is in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming.
Extract from : « Rhymes and Meters » by Horatio Winslow

It is iambic pentameter,—the most common verse in great English poetry.
Extract from : « English: Composition and Literature » by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

Though the prevailing verse is iambic pentameter, we rarely find more than three or four real accents.
Extract from : « An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway » by Martin Brown Ruud

The perception of variations in the measures of an iambic pentameter line was first taken up.
Extract from : « Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 » by Various

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