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decasyllabic

[ dek-uh-si-lab-ik ]

adjective

  1. having ten syllables:

    a decasyllabic verse.



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Other Words From

  • nondec·a·syl·labic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of decasyllabic1

1765–75; deca- + syllabic; compare French décasyllabique
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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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