decasyllabic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nondecasyllabic adjective
Etymology
Origin of decasyllabic
Example Sentences
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The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
The second stanza will pass as it is, but the entire remainder of the poem requires alteration, since but two of the lines are of normal decasyllabic length.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
The decasyllabic line was an old measure; so was the seven-line stanza, both in Provençal and French.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
The octosyllabic verse, hitherto sacred to drama, is exchanged in Cléopâtre for a mixture of the decasyllabic and the Alexandrine, some scenes being written in the one, others in the other.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
In his hands the irregular measure showed a tendency to reduce itself to regular ten-syllable lines, like the first two of the present specimen, which, by themselves, might easily be read as decasyllabic iambics.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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