decasyllable

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dec·a·syl·la·ble

 (dĕk′ə-sĭl′ə-bəl)
n.
A line of verse having ten syllables.
dec′a·syl·lab′ic (-sə-lăb′ĭk) adj.
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decasyllable

(ˈdɛkəˌsɪləbəl)
n
(Poetry) a word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables
decasyllabic adj
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dec•a•syl•la•ble

(ˈdɛk əˌsɪl ə bəl)

n.
a word or line of verse of ten syllables.
[1830–40]
dec`a•syl•lab′ic (-sɪˈlæb ɪk) adj.
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Noun1.decasyllable - a verse line having ten syllables
verse line, verse - a line of metrical text
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Translations

decasyllable

[ˈdekəsɪləbl] N → decasílabo m
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decasyllable

n → Zehnsilber m
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The least convincing section in my view is the epic account of cantos V and VIII, using a truncated decasyllable that is imbued with the harsh stresses and jagged alliteration one would associate with early English poetry.
Verdaguer, Jacint. Mount Canigo. A Tale of Catalonia
Correspondingly, the lines oscillate between the pair and the impair, the well-formed (5//5 decasyllable [first and fourth lines], 3>5 octosyllable [fifth line]) and the indeterminate.
The rhythms of free verse and the rhythms of translation
He introduced lyrical emotionality and sensation; he overcame the insufficiently reanimated non-symmetric decasyllable expression and laid the basic points towards creativity and high poetical goal.
The Macedonian poetry in the 19th and 20th century
(10.) According to my work on rococo meter, the alexandrine, decasyllable and octosyllable combination is a favorite in rococo heterometrical poetry (Nell-Boelsche 243).
La Fontaine and Rococo style: Metonymy, immanence, and Euphemization in Les amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
His workaday presumably is there to get the decasyllable. And why tubers?
Three English versions of Jules Laforgue's 'Pierrots' no. 1 (from 'L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune')
Adapted from the Italian ottava rima, it is a stanza of eight decasyllable lines concluded by a ninth, six - foot iambic line, or Alexandrine, and rhymes a - b - a - b - b - c - b - c - c:
Spenserian stanza
Things get increasingly less clear when the drive to analyse the English decasyllable into three phrases produces, for example, 'And beauteous horror/ strikes/ the dazzled sight' and 'More cultured groves/ o'ershade/ the grassy meads' (p.
Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000
Its placement is more rigid in the decasyllable, however, where
Rimbaud's ruin of French verse: verse spatiality and the Paris Commune ruins
The sixain aabccb, with every line a regular decasyllable, provides this excellently; and as it is not a common form, it mixes the requisite strangeness with its sobriety.
"What's the import?": indefinitiveness of meaning in nineteenth-century parabolic poems
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