pentameter - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • rhyme: All the dialog, which Potter wrote, is in rhyming iambic pentameter, apart from a few direct declarations with eight syllables.
  • follow: Must it rhyme, must it follow iambic pentameter; must every object be described through a metaphor?
  • break: T.S.Eliot " To break the pentameter, that was the first heave.

Adjective modifier

  • iambic: All the dialog, which Potter wrote, is in rhyming iambic pentameter, apart from a few direct declarations with eight syllables.
  • unrhymed: The form of the poem is conventional: blank verse ( unrhymed pentameters ) stanzas, all of five lines.
  • parochial: Upon opening the envelope I remembered just how slim Parochial Pentameter is.
  • Islamic: He lived in Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies and errors, all in Islamic pentameter.

Modifies a noun

  • couplet: The poem is in the form of rhyming pentameter couplets, sometimes called heroic couplets, the favorite poetic form of the eighteenth century.
  • line: Back to top The poem is well controlled - Scannell writes in the iambic pentameter line, with some rhyme effects.

Noun used with modifier

  • operation: Operation Pentameter, an initiative of the Association of Chief Police Officers, rescued 84 women, including a girl of 14.

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