Decasyllable (redirect from Décasyllabe)
Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of...
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riming ABAB. In France the décasyllabe and alexandrine have taken turns as the language's heroic verseform: first, the décasyllabe appearing in the 11th century;...
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12th century, they were slightly looser rhythmically, and vied with the décasyllabe and octosyllabe for cultural prominence and use in various genres. "The...
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syllables. The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (décasyllabe), the eight-syllable line (octosyllabe) and the twelve-syllable line...
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