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  1. elegiac pentameter: Merriam-Webster
  2. elegiac pentameter: Wiktionary
  3. elegiac pentameter: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. elegiac pentameter: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elegiac pentameter)

▸ noun:  (poetry) A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth shortened to a single long syllable.

Similar:
hexameter, hexapody, dimeter, dodecameter, iambic pentameter, tetrameter, pentameter, heroic meter, heptapody, dipody, more...

Opposite:
iambic pentameter, heroic pentameter

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Similar:
hexameter, hexapody, dimeter, dodecameter, iambic pentameter, tetrameter, pentameter, heroic meter, heptapody, dipody, more...

Opposite:
iambic pentameter, heroic pentameter



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