Definition of Decasyllabics

1. decasyllabic [n] - See also: decasyllabic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decasyllabics

decare
decares
decasecond
decaseconds
decastere
decasteres
decastich
decastichs
decastyle
decastyles
decasualization
decasulfide
decasulfides
decasulphide
decasyllabic
decasyllabics (current term)
decasyllable
decasyllables
decatenation
decatenatory
decatetraene
decatetraenes
decathlete
decathletes
decathlon
decathlons
decatoic
decatriene
decatrienes
decavanadate

Literary usage of Decasyllabics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification: With Especial Reference by Charlton Miner Lewis (1898)
"French decasyllabics. Mention has already been made of the great number of derivations proposed for the lo-syllable verse in French. ..."

2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... except Lara and the Corsair; decasyllabics, with five accents, which when rhyming in couplets forms our so-called heroic metre ; ana Alexandrines, ..."

3. An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification by Frank M. Chambers (1985)
"Marcabru did employ decasyllabics, as we have seen, but combined with lines of four and six syllables—or with internal rimes, which amounts to the same ..."

4. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1901)
"His chief interest is that he illustrates with unusual clearness the process Ы which Chaucer's five-foot decasyllabics were ..."

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