Lexicographical Neighbors of Decasyllabics
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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