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of the poem have the length of five feet, where a 'foot' is a combination of a particular number (1 or 2) of unstressed (or weak)
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and a stressed (or strong) syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be
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is said to be written in a particular pentameter when the
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