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Pentameter   Listen
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Pentameter  n.  (Gr. & L.Pros.) A verse of five feet. Note: The dactylic pentameter consists of two parts separated by a diaeresis. 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.





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... are the percentages in columns five, six, and seven. Before 1598, feminine endings never reach twenty per cent of the total number of pentameter lines; after that date they are practically always above that number, and show a fairly steady increase to the thirty-five per cent of The Tempest. The variations of run-on lines (which, of course, carry with them the frequency of pauses within the ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson


Words linked to "Pentameter" :   verse, verse line


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