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Recent Examples of pentameter
That, too, is pentameter, plain as plain can be.
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Alex Abramovich,
New Yorker,
26 Dec. 2025
Without Marlowe, there might have been no iambic pentameter, and no soliloquies.
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Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
By and large, Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.
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Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
What’s exciting about a production like this is to see the ways in which wordless movement can do the work here that iambic pentameter does in another context.
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Lily Janiak,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 Apr. 2023
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Alex Abramovich,
New Yorker,
26 Dec. 2025
Without Marlowe, there might have been no iambic pentameter, and no soliloquies.
—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
By and large, Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.
—
Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
What’s exciting about a production like this is to see the ways in which wordless movement can do the work here that iambic pentameter does in another context.
—
Lily Janiak,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pentameter
Noun
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Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables.
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Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
Noun
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Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss.
Noun
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Officials say the data collected helps solve and deter crime by, for example, allowing law enforcement to track a criminal’s movements.
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In the years since, the bird, affectionately dubbed Pinky, has inspired a movement.
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“Pentameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pentameter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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