EGAVE

pentameter

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
  2. noun Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.

Similar words

iambic unrhymed unrimed pentametre tetrameter hexameter tetrametre heptameter decametre octameter

Often followed by

line lines and is couplets in verse of with

Word family

pentameters

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