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elegiac pentameter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English

Syllables
ele-giac pen-tame-ter
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth shortened to a single long syllable.

Questions

What does elegiac pentameter mean?
A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth shortened to a single long syllable.

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