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What is a pentameter?

What is a pentameter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
  2. (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
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The entire film is in iambic pentameter, and the rhyming patterns are wonderful.
The second section of the poem, the last four lines, alternate between iambic tetrameter and pentameter.
Really the only difference is that the terms have been Carrollised and the verse is in octameter instead of pentameter.
Our hearing is indissolubly wedded to five-beat Shakespearean blank verse, usually unrhymed iambic pentameter.
He believes that iambic pentameter is the most suited to heroic verse, especially in English, and that rhyme should be consistent and regular.
Tennyson was an expert metricist, but in this poem he keeps things pretty simple, sticking with the standard meter of English, iambic pentameter.

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