How many syllables are in a pentameter? i got 4 but, my options are 2, 5, 10, and 12

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anonymous · Answer

5

anonymous · Answer

10

sierra_grey · Answer

Can you explain how it is 5 and how it is 10

anonymous · Answer

Pen-ta-met-er

anonymous · Answer

Does that make sence Sierra?

sierra_grey · Answer

well since it says How many syllables are IN a pentameter? instead of How many syllables are in pentameter? so is it 10- because pentameter means "a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet"

anonymous · Answer

Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. So yeah you'd be right I guess. I didn't read the question at first I guess!

anonymous · Answer

when your done here, do you mind helping me?

sierra_grey · Answer

Yeah, i didn't read the question well at first either x) Thank you!