iambic pentameter

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aɪˈæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

Examples
“To bé, or nót to bé, that ís the quéstion” (Hamlet)

iambic pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural iambic pentameters)

A poetic meter consisting of lines with five iambic feet each, meaning the even syllables are dominant.
- 2023 October 21, Kate Maltby, “Brute force”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
  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.)

Translations

a poetic meter

Chinese:
Mandarin: 抑揚格五音步詩／抑扬格五音步诗 (yìyánggé wǔyīnbù shī)
Esperanto: kvinjambo
Finnish: jambinen pentametri
French: pentamètre iambique m
German: jambische Fünfheber m
Italian: pentametro giambico m
Polish: pentametr jambiczny
Portuguese: pentâmetro iâmbico (pt) m
Romanian: pentametru iambic
Spanish: pentámetro yámbico m
Swedish: jambisk pentameter
Turkish: beşli ölçü

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