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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
pentameter
 
SYLLABICATION:pen·tam·e·ter
PRONUNCIATION:  pn-tm-tr
NOUN:1. A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. 2. English verse composed in iambic pentameter.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin, from Greek pentametros : penta-, penta- + metron, measure; see meter1.
 
 
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