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
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
The style of the work was entirely novel; and the stanza in which it was written—the decasyllabic quatrain with alternate rhymes—had never been so effectively handled.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Those decasyllabic quatrains are a decided departure from Mrs. Renshaw's usual style, which explains the slight lack of fluency.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
Kittredge, G. L., on French decasyllabic couplet, 178.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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