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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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