ten-syllable

The collection is full of fairly loosely formed sonnets (slant rhymed, ten-syllable pieces) that move from the pattern of linked verses to some stand alone pieces.

Native Guard : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The attenuation of the speaking self follows a vortex through its death into a non-human form of self, the midway point the "wispering shade" with its unstable referent hovering between death in the natural poet and the collective image of representation -- just as Smith's blank verse hovers between the closed, finite image of the ten-syllable line and the infinite openness of its vertical coordinate of the stream of many lines.

Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

Yet the poem resolutely commits itself to that most un-camelion-like of lines and verse forms in early Romanticism, the ten-syllable line of blank verse.

Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

They practiced chart logging, memorized ten-syllable Latin medical terms, and attended four days of intensive instruction devoted to emergency first aid.

Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988

Italian Canzone, which simply means having a lot of ten-syllable lines and

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 Various

I cannot call to mind any precedent for the form of stanza adopted by him, consisting, as it does, of six ten-syllable lines, rhyming alternately, followed by a twelve-syllable couplet.

Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Various

But because verse written strictly in these feet and by these principles will become same and tame the poets have brought in licences and departures from rule to give variety, and especially when the natural rhythm is rising, as in the common ten-syllable or five-foot verse, rhymed or blank.

Author’s Preface 1918

The ten-syllable line is used with the greatest ability.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

It is written in ten-syllable verse, and consists of eighteen balades, each balade containing three seven-line stanzas.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Romance ten-syllable line with four or five stresses.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913