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
It is curious to see this young lover of Théophile Gautier and old intricate rhyme-forms, winning the Newdigate Prize for a poem in decasyllabic couplets on a set subject.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
The middle division of each contains ten decasyllabic lines.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
When we come to the department of metre we seem to be on surer ground; the metre of Beaumont has high qualities, and his decasyllabic verse reminds me of the cold purity of a waterfall.
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
The second stanza will pass as it is, but the entire remainder of the poem requires alteration, since but two of the lines are of normal decasyllabic length.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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