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
The octosyllabic verse, hitherto sacred to drama, is exchanged in Cléopâtre for a mixture of the decasyllabic and the Alexandrine, some scenes being written in the one, others in the other.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
The decasyllabic line was an old measure; so was the seven-line stanza, both in Provençal and French.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
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 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 Raymond MacDonald Alden
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