Question

What is the length of the following lines?
Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.
hexameter
pentameter
decameter

Answer 1

The length of the lines stated above is pentameter.

Here's why:

The number of words included per phrase is in maximum of five. In Greek or Latin, penta means the number five. Pentameter is the term used to refer to a line of verse which is five metrical feet in length. 

Answer 2

Answer:

• Pentameter

Explanation:

Pentameter is a literary device that can be characterized as a line in section or verse that has five in number metrical feet or beats. There are various types of pentameter: iamb, trochaic, dactylic, and anapestic. The most normally utilized pentameter in English is versifying. It likewise can be depicted as a line that comprises of ten syllables, where the main syllable is focused on, the second is unstressed, the third is pushed, etc until it achieves the tenth line syllable.