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decasyllabic
[ dek-uh-si-lab-ik ]
adjective
- having ten syllables:
a decasyllabic verse.
Other Words From
- nondec·a·syl·labic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of decasyllabic1
Example Sentences
The style of the work was entirely novel; and the stanza in which it was written—the decasyllabic quatrain with alternate rhymes—had never been so effectively handled.
Ron′del, a form of French verse, earlier than the rondeau, consisting of thirteen octosyllabic or decasyllabic lines on two rhymes—practised by Charles of Orleans, &c.;
The middle division of each contains ten decasyllabic lines.
The decasyllabic line was an old measure; so was the seven-line stanza, both in Provençal and French.
When we come to the department of metre we seem to be on surer ground; the metre of Beaumont has high qualities, and his decasyllabic verse reminds me of the cold purity of a waterfall.
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