Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of...

contracted into a single long syllable. In poem 55 there are twelve decasyllables and ten normal lines: Poem 58b is thought by some scholars to be a fragment...

literature, though in earlier literature – such as the chanson de geste – the decasyllable grouped in laisses took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of...

a Westerner" is a first-person monologue written in quatrains of one decasyllable followed by three Alexandrines, structured in enclosed rhyme. It is a...

historical events to the accompaniment of this instrument, usually in the decasyllable meter. There are records of an instrument named gusle (гоусли) being...

is underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee The Ants Go Marching...

used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. octosyllable decasyllable hendecasyllable dodecasyllable Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005...

subjective mood of sexual love. The basic meter in Moraes' love poetry is the decasyllable, taken mostly from Camões's lyric poetry. During his stay in England...

composed of 5 syllables. Redondilha maior: composed of 7 syllables. Decasyllable (decassílabo): composed of 10 syllables. Mostly used in Parnassian sonnets...

it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are decasyllable and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have eight poetic syllables. Veloso...

"alexandrine", after the French equivalent. hexasyllable, octosyllable, decasyllable, and hendecasyllable — lines of 6, 8, 10, and 11 syllables, respectively...

Czech poets use different metres for sonnets, Kollár and Mácha used decasyllables, Vrchlický iambic pentameter, Antonín Sova free verse, and Jiří Orten...

less complete manuscripts and two short fragments) comprises 10,553 decasyllable verses grouped in 91 assonanced laisses. Presumed dates for its composition...

narration (as in Chaucer). meter (poetry) hexasyllable – 6 syllable line decasyllable – 10 syllable line hendecasyllable – 11 syllable line dodecasyllable...

hendecasyllables, followed by an Alcaic enneasyllable and an Alcaic decasyllable. The Alcaic stanza exists only in a few fragments of Alcaeus's poetry...

(1973), author George MacDonald Fraser concludes a final scene with a decasyllable quatrain pastiche in Flecker’s style. Following many misadventures suffered...

comprises 3,553 verses in assonanced laisses; most of the verses are decasyllables, but there are occasional recurring short six-syllable lines. The poem...

that corresponds poorly with the genre of epic poetry. The metre (the decasyllable) could not but contrast unfavourably with the magnificent alexandrines...

comprises 4,708 verses grouped into 122 rhymed laisses; the verses are all decasyllables except for a short six syllable line at the end of each laisse (a similar...

(10000 decasyllables), early 13th century Garin le Loherain [fr] (17000 decasyllables), 12th century Girbert de Metz [fr] (13000 decasyllables), end of...

is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines). The laisse is characterized by stereotyped...

W X Y Z See also References dactyl dandy Débat death poem decadence decasyllable decorum denotation The most literal and limited meaning of a word, regardless...

was written between 1230 and 1250, and consists of about 11000 rhymed decasyllables. A prose version of the tale is preserved in a manuscript of the late...

syllables. The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line...

Wright Ltd.; Oliver and Boyd Inferno and Purgatorio Irregularly rhymed decasyllables 1931 Jefferson Butler Fletcher United States The Macmillan Company Comedy...

Double dactyl Octosyllable: metrical line consisting of 8 syllables. Decasyllable: metrical line consisting of 10 syllables. Hendecasyllable: metrical...

around 1700 which contains the earliest records of the heroic songs in decasyllable verse (Serbian: deseterac). The origin of the songs recorded in Perast...

followed a decasyllabic rule.[citation needed] In Titus Andronicus, decasyllables have been used throughout. "There is a considerable pause; and though...

the fact that Nostradamus wrote his Propheties in rhymed four-line decasyllables called quatrains. Nostradamus also never referred to a "third big war"...

describe it as a poem in prose; in effect we can find some verses (decasyllables and hendecasyllables) hidden in the text. The register is high-level...