Pentameter (from Greek: πεντάμετρος - 'measuring five (feet)') is a poetic meter. А poem is said to be written in (a particular) pentameter when the lines of the poem have the length of five feet, one foot being a combination of a particular number (1 or 2) of unstressed, or weak, syllables and a stressed, or strong syllable. Depending on the pattern of feet, pentameter can be, for example, iambic (one of two possible two-syllable meters) or dactylic (one of three possible three-syllable meters) (see links below).

This class of meters includes:

• the iambic pentameter of the modern period
• the dactylic pentameter of antiquity

How often in pentameter
must I milk his feelings rare
for he is wonton
b'ond repair
My love whom sits just over there.

A mere five feet if I can measure
from his love and from his treasure
here I sit, cannot compare
to the glass just over there

the condensation falls as tears
but I dare  not express my fears
lest i'm compar'd to his other
whom bore his daughter; hair so fair

He is his, and I would never
dare to grip his wings to tether
not even a wanton feather
of the wings I hold so dear

I can see his wings still shifting
and his beak so meekly chipping
and his passions family gripping
pecking at the amber near

With wings encased
his mind is slipping
rocks of doldrum's pools'; he's gripping
an artists heart, an artists ear
he's wed to that he holds so dear.

I will always share his heart
Me his mistress,
Life, his art.
Never will there ever be
only him and only me.