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Recent Examples of pentameter
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
The movie does use certain software in order to ensure that the rhymes of Dr Seuss’ famous feline creation are structured in iambic pentameter, Carloni explained.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
11 June 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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Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
By and large, Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.
—
Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
The movie does use certain software in order to ensure that the rhymes of Dr Seuss’ famous feline creation are structured in iambic pentameter, Carloni explained.
—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
11 June 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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An emphasis on wellness means not only pampering spa treatments but advanced health tech, movement, and meditation sessions over an entire floor.
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Sinlaku’s slow movement (in contrast to Bavi) worsened impacts by keeping destructive winds and torrential rain over the islands for hours, rather than moving through quickly.
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“Pentameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pentameter. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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