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Definition of: pentameter
(pen·tam′ə·tər) noun
1. A line of verse of five metrical feet; especially, English iambic pentameter.
2. Verse comprised of pentameters; heroic verse.
3. In classical prosody, the second line of an elegiac distich: a hexameter with third and sixth feet lacking one long syllable. [<L <Gk. pentametros (a verse) of five measures <pente five + metron a measure]
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