pentameter

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.

Take, for example, Long and Short, or Hexameter and Pentameter verses. — The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue, Percival Leigh
His productions, all written either in heroic or pentameter verse, are numerous, and on various subjects. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius
Your stool limps like one of Martial’s distiches; it has one hexameter leg and one pentameter leg.” “Climb!” repeated Clopin. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo

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