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iambic pentameters

iambic pentameters is the plural of iambic pentameter.

Meaning of iambic pentameter

Noun

iambic pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural iambic pentameters)

  1. A poetic meter consisting of lines with five iambic feet each, meaning the even syllables are dominant.
    • Yet he didn't recommend Wilson, even though she has undertaken to capture the poem's aural grandeur by rendering it as iambic pentameter. (Nothing signals canonical like employing Shakespeare's favourite meter.)2023 October 21, Kate Maltby, “Brute force”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9

Questions about iambic pentameters

What is iambic pentameters the plural of?
Iambic pentameters is the plural of iambic pentameter.

Words near iambic pentameters in the dictionary

  1. iambelegi
  2. iambelegus
  3. iambi
  4. iambic
  5. iambic pentameter
  6. iambic pentameters
  7. iambic shortening
  8. iambic shortenings
  9. iambic tetrameter
  10. iambical
  11. iambically

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