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What (who) is pentameter$58945$ - definition

LINE CONSISTING OF FIVE IAMBIC FEET
Iambic pentametre; Iambic Pentameter; Marlowe's mighty line

Iambic pentameter         
Iambic pentameter () is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in that line; rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet".
pentameter         
METER CONSISTING OF FIVE METRICAL FEET
Similar to a centameter, but with five sides.
The mayor's office decided that pentameters would be the standard unit of measure for all four-dimentional objects because those hundred-sided centameters won't work.
pentameter         
METER CONSISTING OF FIVE METRICAL FEET
(pentameters)
In literary criticism, a pentameter is a line of poetry that has five strong beats in it. (TECHNICAL)
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Iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter () is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in that line; rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". "Iambic" refers to the type of foot used, here the iamb, which in English indicates an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-bove). "Pentameter" indicates a line of five "feet".

Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in English poetry. It was first introduced into English by Chaucer in 14th century on the basis of French and Italian models. It is used in several major English poetic forms, including blank verse, the heroic couplet, and some of the traditionally rhymed stanza forms. William Shakespeare famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets, John Milton in his Paradise Lost, and William Wordsworth in The Prelude.

As lines in iambic pentameter usually contain ten syllables, it is considered a form of decasyllabic verse.