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Even Pope settled for iambic pentameter when translating Homer, rather than the epics’ dactylic hexameter.
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At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.
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The majority of Senese-Grossberg’s script has the actors speaking in contemporary language, though there are performance sequences spoken in the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare.
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But with Shakespeare, whose characters felt so familiar inside rules of prose and iambic pentameter, Ming-Trent found a poetry partner to hep him through life’s brutalities.
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Officials say the data collected helps solve and deter crime by, for example, allowing law enforcement to track a criminal’s movements.
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In the years since, the bird, affectionately dubbed Pinky, has inspired a movement.
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“Trimeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trimeter. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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