noun
- a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet
Usage: poetry
Examples
- Shakespeare’s sonnets are written in iambic pentameter.
- The poet used pentameter to create a rhythmic flow in her verse.
- Students learned to identify pentameter in classical poetry.
- Each line of pentameter contains exactly five stressed beats.
- The dramatic monologue was composed entirely in pentameter.
- Pentameter gives poetry a natural, speech-like rhythm.