| word | pentameter |
|---|---|
| definition | A line of poetry consisting of five metrical feet. |
| eg_sentence | Shakespeare's tragedies are written mainly in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| explanation | In a line of poetry written in perfect iambic pentameter, there are five unstressed syllables, each of which is followed by a stressed syllable. Each pair of syllables is a metrical foot called an iamb. Much of the greatest poetry in English has been written in iambic pentameter; Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton used it more than any other meter. Robert Frost's line “I'm going out to clean the pasture spring” is an example of it; his “And miles to go before I sleep” is instead an example of iambic tetrameter, with only four accented syllables |
| IPA | pentameter* |
Tags: mwvb::unit:18, mwvb::unit:18:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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