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
French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.; influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190; perfect rime in, 121 n.; regular cesura in, 17, 18; influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f.,
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
In the decasyllabic line the cesura generally followed the fourth, but sometimes the sixth, tonic syllable.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
If so, he must have been one of the first of English poets to adopt the very loose enjambed decasyllabic couplet in which his work, like that of Marmion and still more Chamberlayne, is written.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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 Raymond MacDonald Alden
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