0 a line in poetry which has five stressed syllables; the rhythm of poetry with five stressed syllables in a line:
These are tentatively assumed to be like pentameter lines through the third foot.
Turning now to elegy, the elegiac couplet consists of a line of dactylic hexameter plus a line of dactylic ' pentameter ' so-called, actually two small lines.
Another point is that there are other approaches to iambic pentameter.
The subject is the tendencies of iambic pentameter.
It is a pentameter with iambic rhythm.
Iambic pentameter is generated by projecting ten syllables, with foot boundaries every two syllables.
As illustration, consider the iambic pentameter.
They just loved the iambic pentameters—they spoke in iambic pentameters all week.
