A line made up of five feet. It is the most common metrical line in English. Theodore Roethke’s “The Waking” is written in iambic pentameter. Hart Crane maintains pentameter lines made up of variable [..]

1540s, from Middle French pentametre, from Latin pentameter, from Greek pentametros (adj.) "having five measures," from pente "five" (see five) + metron "measure" (see me [..]

When poetry consists of five feet in each line, it is written in pentameter. Each foot has a set number of syllables. Iambs, spondees, and trochees are feet consisting of two syllables. Thus, iambic p [..]

n. In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.

A line of verse with five feet is known as pentameter (Greek penta, "five"). The most common verse form in English is iambic pentameter, that is, five feet in each verse, each containing an [..]

a line of poetry with five feet: "Nuns fret | not at | their con- | vent’s nar- | row room."

A line of poetry comprising of five metrical 'feet'. Shakespeare's plays were largely written in iambic pentameter. See meter and Shakespeare's line.  

(n) a verse line having five metrical feet

N M pentameter; five metric feet

(poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet. (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.