Usually means: Five-line stanza or poem.
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  1. pentastich: Merriam-Webster
  2. pentastich: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pentastich: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pentastich: Wordnik
  5. pentastich: Wiktionary
  6. pentastich: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pentastich: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Pentastich, pentastich: Dictionary.com
  9. Pentastich: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pentastich: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pentastich: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Pentastich: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pentastich: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pentastich: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pentastich: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (poetry) Any composition consisting of five verses.

Similar:
heptastich, octastich, tetrastich, hexastich, pentacrostic, pentameter, tetracolon, pentametre, sestina, heptapody, more...

Opposite:
hexastich, heptastich, octastich

Types:
ghazal, sestina, sonnet, villanelle, tanka, haiku, triplet, diamante, limerick, more...

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Similar:
heptastich, octastich, tetrastich, hexastich, pentacrostic, pentameter, tetracolon, pentametre, sestina, heptapody, more...

Opposite:
hexastich, heptastich, octastich

Types:
ghazal, sestina, sonnet, villanelle, tanka, haiku, triplet, diamante, limerick, more...



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