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
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
French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.; influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190; perfect rime in, 121 n.; regular cesura in, 17, 18; influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f.,
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Kittredge, G. L., on French decasyllabic couplet, 178.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
In general, the early experiments in blank verse suggest—what they must often have seemed to their writers—the mere use of the decasyllabic couplet deprived of its rime.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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