decasyllable
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Besides the sonnet, he introduced into England blank verse, which he borrowed from the Italian versi sciolti, fixing that decasyllable iambic rhythm for English versification in which our greatest poetical triumphs have been achieved.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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
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 Saintsbury, George
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 Saintsbury, George
The shorter length of the decasyllable line is not altogether a disadvantage to the translator.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
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