iambic pentameter

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iambic pentameter

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• IPA^(key): /aɪˈæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtə(ɹ)/

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.
   • 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.)