Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having ten syllables: as, a decasyllabic verse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having ten
syllables - adjective Composed of
decasyllables
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables
Etymologies
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Examples
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Debbie has some fine Augustan echoes: rolling decasyllabic lines though with impish breaks that propel semantic leaps, as in the first few lines!
Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson Lemon Hound 2009
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Whether fifty thousand words of prose action or fourteen decasyllabic lines of verse with a strict rhyme scheme, a genre is a list of the minimal conditions that a writer must meet.
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Whether fifty thousand words of prose action or fourteen decasyllabic lines of verse with a strict rhyme scheme, a genre is a list of the minimal conditions that a writer must meet.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Yes, at some point in my past, I decided to note the number of syllables you'd use for the word "Canterbury" in order to make the verse come out "properly" decasyllabic.
Archive 2008-06-01 Bardiac 2008
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Yeah, it LOOKS iambic pentameter to me, too, but real medievalist verse types will tell you that it's not; it's something something decasyllabic verse.
Archive 2008-06-01 Bardiac 2008
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This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Sharon and the maids of Salem, and a prophecy that roses shall deck the entire country of Syria, and a speedy reign of peace be established — all in undeniably decasyllabic lines, and the queerest aping of sense and sentiment and poetry.
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The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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