In his later poetry Ovid shows a steadily increasing willingness to allow his pentameters to end with words other than disyllables.
Thus it is scarcely to be doubted that already Mr. Haigh had more sympathy with the serious offender whom he had caught red-handed with little clods who ended pentameters with adjectives or showed a depraved disregard for the caesura.
Translation in iambic pentameters of the end of The Songs of Selma, p.
For the hexameters and pentameters into which Schweinfurth has painfully packed its sentiments, are of a kind to make the classical ghost of Olympia shudder, if that erudite and gentle spirit may be supposed to have cognisance of them.
The smoothness of too many rhymed pentameters is that of thin ice over shallow water; so long as we glide along rapidly, all is well; but if we dwell a moment on any one spot, we may find ourselves knee-deep in mud.
In what makes the chief merit of his later versification, he but rediscovered the secret of his predecessors in giving to rhymed pentameters something of the freedom of blank verse, and not mistaking metre for rhythm.
In the numeris lege solutis he is often snatched beyond himself, and becomes truly dithyrambic; in his pentameters the march of the thought is comparatively hampered and irresolute.
Take for example 'The Veiled Image at Sais', which tells in rather prosaic pentameters of an ardent young truth-seeker who is escorted by an Egyptian hierophant to a veiled statue and told that whoso lifts the veil shall see the Truth.
But the best of all perhaps was the oft-quoted gem: In Weimar and in Jena they make hexameters like this, But the pentametersare even more excellent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pentameters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
