pentameter

English

Alternative forms

• pentametre

Etymology

From Middle French pentamètre.

Noun

pentameter (plural pentameters)

1. (poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
2. (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.

Derived terms

• elegiac pentameter
• iambic pentameter

Related terms

• pentametric

Translations

line in a poem

• Finnish: pentametri (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Fünfheber m

poetic metre

• Finnish: pentametri (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Fünfheber m

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• pentametre