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 decasyllabic line, derived originally from popular Latin verse, rhythmical rather than metrical, such as the Roman legionaries sang, is the favourite verse of the older chansons.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
The whole structure of the decasyllabic line before the middle of the seventeenth century was ill calculated for the perfecting of the couplet.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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
Stengel, on French alexandrine, 252; on French decasyllabic verse, 177 f.; on octosyllabic verse, 160.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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