decasyllable
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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
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 Saintsbury, George
Both doggerel and fourteeners appear in the quaint productions called Three Ladies of London, etc.; but by this time the decasyllable began to appear with them and to edge them out.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
The salut d'amour is a kind of epistle, sometimes of very great length and usually in octosyllabic verse, the decasyllable being more commonly used in the Chanson.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
Most of Shakespeare’s lines conform to the normal type of the decasyllable, and the rest are accounted for by familiar and rational rules of variation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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