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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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 George Saintsbury
How DID you learn the secret of writing the decasyllable line, and whence that sweet wailing note of tenderness that accompanies your song?
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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