How do you use Pentameter in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like verse, plus the exact meaning.
Pentameter meaning
- A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
- Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
Synonyms of Pentameter
Using Pentameter
- The main meaning on this page is: A line in a poem having five metrical feet. | Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
- Useful related words include: verse, verse line.
- In the example corpus, pentameter often appears in combinations such as: iambic pentameter.
Context around Pentameter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pentameter
- In this selection, "pentameter" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, iambic, dactylic, verse, quatrains and tend stand out and add context to how "pentameter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in iambic pentameter and as iambic pentameter tend to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pentameter" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pentameter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation. (7 words)
As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse. (13 words)
This poem is arranged into three stanzas of four lines in iambic tetrameter followed by a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter. (21 words)
Though the Baron still takes sadistic enjoyment in the suffering of others, he is portrayed as somewhat flamboyant, pompous, calculating and self-indulgent, with a tendency to speak in iambic pentameter when the mood strikes him. (36 words)
Sumaya Bouhbal as Pepita is the young companion to the very rich and very vain Dona Maria (Mary Lou Rosato) who drinks too much, wanders through the town and occasionally speaks in iambic pentameter. (34 words)
It was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate (1668) and historiographer royal (1670). (34 words)
Example sentences (10)
His lyrically scrambled iambic pentameter can be politically bent, spiritually seeking, and tongue-in-cheek humorous with just a twist of serious.
Sumaya Bouhbal as Pepita is the young companion to the very rich and very vain Dona Maria (Mary Lou Rosato) who drinks too much, wanders through the town and occasionally speaks in iambic pentameter.
There are parts that—though everyone is dressed in the garb of Britons and speaking in iambic pentameter—could come straight out of a Mario Puzzo novel.
As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse.
Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation.
It was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate (1668) and historiographer royal (1670).
Some patterns (such as iambic pentameter) tend to be fairly regular, while other patterns, such as dactylic hexameter, tend to be highly irregular.
The stanza's main meter is iambic pentameter with a final line in iambic hexameter (having six feet or stresses, known as an Alexandrine ), and the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc.
This poem is arranged into three stanzas of four lines in iambic tetrameter followed by a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter.
Though the Baron still takes sadistic enjoyment in the suffering of others, he is portrayed as somewhat flamboyant, pompous, calculating and self-indulgent, with a tendency to speak in iambic pentameter when the mood strikes him.
Common combinations with pentameter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: