decasyllabic
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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
Then come sixty-five epistles written in couplets for the most part decasyllabic.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
The importance of this matter in the history of English decasyllabic verse will appear in Part Two.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
The middle division of each contains ten decasyllabic lines.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
Not only the decasyllabic, but the lyric, in short lines had almost died out of memory, and Wyatt brought it back.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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