Pentameter

n. [Gr. πεντάμετρος, from πέντε, five, and μέτρον, measure; Lat. pentameter, Fr. pentamètre, It. & Sp. pentametro.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A verse of five feet, of which the first two may be either dactyls or spondees, the third is always a spondee, and the last two anapests.

☞ A pentameter verse, joined to a hexameter, constitutes what is called elegiac verse.