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Definition of the day : « iambic pentameter »
- noun a meter in poetry
- 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