a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. Also called elegiac pentameter.

What is the meaning pentameter?

pentameter, in poetry, a line of verse containing five metrical feet. In English verse, in which pentameter has been the predominant metre since the 16th century, the preferred foot is the iamb—i.e., an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, represented in scansion as ˘ ´.

How do you use pentameter in a sentence?

The entire film is in iambic pentameter, and the rhyming patterns are wonderful. The iambic pentameter of Shakespeare's sonnets mimics the beat of the human heart. He believes that iambic pentameter is the most suited to heroic verse, especially in English, and that rhyme should be consistent and regular.