What's the difference between pentameter and pentarchy?
Pentameter
Definition:
(n.) A verse of five feet.
(a.) Having five metrical feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though Lord Derby's version is in unrhymed iambic pentameters, rather than the dactylic hexameters of the original, the narrative retains the density of an exciting though tragic war novel, never matched for scenes of ferocity and courage and the maintenance of honour, with its graphic descriptions of ghastly wounds, nearly all of which result in death.
(2) The joys of learning about iambic pentameter were no compensation for the weather and the food and the tight cliques of English girls, socially stratified in ways that were incomprehensible to me.
(3) They are "pulled about, the iambic pentameter is frequently broken … and yet the syncopation of scenes is like music".
Pentarchy
Definition:
(n.) A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.