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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɪˈæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtə(ɹ)/
Noun
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- “To bé, or nót to bé, that ís the quéstion” (Hamlet)
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iambic pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural iambic pentameters)
- A poetic meter consisting of lines with five iambic feet each, meaning the even syllables are dominant.
2023 October 21, Kate Maltby, “Brute force”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:Yet he didn't recommend Wilson, even though she has undertaken to capture the poem's aural grandeur by rendering it as iambic pentameter. (Nothing signals canonical like employing Shakespeare's favourite meter.)
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