All the dialog, which Potter wrote, is in rhyming iambic pentameter, apart from a few direct declarations with eight syllables. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet". From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
= There are twenty trisyllabic pentameter endings in. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Court TV correspondents don't speak in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2004] Reference
Hence it was that he gave vent to these pentameter verses. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It's a children's book — written in anapestic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Books] Reference
= For the quadrisyllable ending to the pentameter, see at ii. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
I can do quadratic equations and write in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room: Election 2000 Goes to the Florida Supreme Court - November 17, 2000] Reference
Can his iambic pentameter compete with her dactylic hexameter?. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The splendid pentameter is slightly misquoted by BALLIOLENSIS. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
It must consist of exactly fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The Benedictine editors subjoin two readings of the pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850] Reference
One of these days I ` m going to respond to it in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2005] Reference
O'BRIEN: ... you have to write it in iambic pentameter in a four-line poem?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2004] Reference
The good news is that I won't have to write this exam in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
I wrote tons of sonnets, and got really decent at iambic octameter/pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
Nightnurse, not avoiding iambic pentameter. past history (older) - current exam. From Wordnik.com. [nightnurse Diary Entry] Reference
It was advanced, a style that was past primitive blank verse or heroic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
At these words, Tai-yü bade Tzu Chüan fetch Wang Tso-ch'eng's pentameter stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
In the pentameter verse of the elegiac distich the caesura is always penthemimeral. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Does someone who reads lots of poetry automatically know what iambit pentameter is?. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature A Hidden Finger] Reference
Does the rimed pentameter couplet prove itself a possible poetic vehicle for such emotion?. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
That makes it sound as if I was writing some huge epic thing, perhaps in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
But the verb should be taken not with the pentameter that precedes, but with the one that follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Mr. Cataliades just looked shocked, as if a monkey had begun to speak to him in iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
= Ovid allows pentasyllabic words to end the pentameter only in the poetry of exile (Platnauer 17). From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
And I am left to woo her with nothing but my shopworn metaphors, my contrived rhymes, my incompetent pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Letter to Neruda] Reference
And I think that some of its effect comes from the fact that much of the lyrics are in perfect iambic pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Tangled Up In School: Teaching Dylan In Boston] Reference
The most common form for the poetic composition is the unrhymed iambic pentameter or blank verse (heroic measure). From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Mr. STEVEN PAGE (Barenaked Ladies): And I thought, how am I going to fit iambic pentameter into a rock 'n' roll format?. From Wordnik.com. [Barenaked Ladies Meet Shakespeare] Reference
What if one speech ends in the middle of a line of iambic pentameter and another character continues where that line left off?. From Wordnik.com. ['Playing Shakespeare' The Way The Pros Do It] Reference
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