decasyllabic

Definitions

Examples

• In versification Hunts aim was to bring back into use the earlier form of the rhymed English decasyllabic or heroic couplet.

• The remaining and much the chief portion of the book consists of half a dozen poems in the rhymed decasyllabic couplet.

• Not only the decasyllabic, but the lyric, in short lines had almost died out of memory, and Wyatt brought it back.

• On one occasion, one of our children, a little boy, had been spending some time over a number of decasyllabic lines.

• This is in the ordinary form of the older, but not oldest, chansons de geste, decasyllabic rhymed tirades.