decasyllable
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Hitherto the decasyllable and the dodecasyllable had been used indiscriminately, and Ronsard's Franciade is written in the former.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
The shorter length of the decasyllable line is not altogether a disadvantage to the translator.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
He treated the Alexandrine of Corneille exactly as Pope treated the decasyllable of Dryden, and as Virgil treated the hexameter of Lucretius.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Wyatt's awkwardness is not limited to the decasyllable, but some of his short poems in short lines recover rhythmical grace very remarkably, and set a great example.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
It was the beginning of a revolution, which Ferreira completed by abandoning the hendecasyllable for the Italian decasyllable, and by composing the noble and austere 286 Roman poetry of his letters, odes and elegies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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