1. pentameter - Noun
2. pentameter - Adjective
A verse of five feet.
Having five metrical feet.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter. Neil Patrick Harris
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. Howard Nemerov
I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it's held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter whatever else it is, can be a very good glue. It is a very good way to hold things together. It's like 4:4 you know. Robert Pinsky
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' Calvin Trillin
As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse. Source: Internet