Adjective : a decasyllabic verse.    From Dictionary.com. 

In substituting the decasyllabic quatrain for the triple rhyme of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

This is in decasyllabic verse, arranged in stanzas of seven lines each.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

Debbie has some fine Augustan echoes: rolling decasyllabic lines though with impish breaks that propel semantic leaps, as in the first few lines!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson] Reference

Yeah, it LOOKS iambic pentameter to me, too, but real medievalist verse types will tell you that it's not; it's something something decasyllabic verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Yes, at some point in my past, I decided to note the number of syllables you'd use for the word "Canterbury" in order to make the verse come out "properly" decasyllabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Whether fifty thousand words of prose action or fourteen decasyllabic lines of verse with a strict rhyme scheme, a genre is a list of the minimal conditions that a writer must meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genres and niche markets] Reference

Italian precedent, first by its decasyllabic structure, whereas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference

It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot -- Around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference

The decasyllabic line, derived originally from popular Latin verse, rhythmical rather than metrical, such as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

The form, though not finished with the perfection of the French decasyllabic, is by no means of a very uncouth description.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

The poem is written in decasyllabic iambic lines with a cæsura at the second foot, these lines being written with a precision which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

The story, told in decasyllabic couplets, interspersed after a rather unusual fashion with innumerable lyrics, seems in the main authentic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference

The characteristics of Shakespeare's blank verse -- the rhymeless, iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter, introduced into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference

English poets to adopt the very loose enjambed decasyllabic couplet in which his work, like that of Marmion and still more Chamberlayne, is written.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

The employment of rhyme in place of assonance, and of the alexandrine in place of the decasyllabic line, encouraged what may be called poetical padding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

Milton wrote the story of the Fall of Man: he told it in some thousands of lines of decasyllabic verse unrhymed; he measured these lines out with exquisite cadences.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Art of Reading] Reference

Sidesplittingly, the free on line poker is far soughingly from decasyllabic langsat that they elemi not yet pragmatical dreyfus that shrublet slighting is, accommodatingly, staggeringly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

But the movement of the sonnet is slow and meditative, a single thought expanded and articulated through the triple division, and the longer, decasyllabic line is the appropriate medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C] Reference

Nectanabus is rejected here as in the decasyllabic version, which was evidently under the eyes of the authors, yet the enchanter is admitted as having a great influence on the Prince's education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

His ambitious attempt to trace the origin of the French monarchy from the imaginary Trojan Francus was unfortunate in its subject, and equally unfortunate in its form -- the rhyming decasyllabic verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

His gift to French poetry is especially a gift of finer art -- firm and delicate expression, felicity in rendering a thought or a feeling, certainty and grace in poetic evolution, skill in handling the decasyllabic line.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

The decasyllabic couplet, so resonant in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

The decasyllabic poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

5-stress or heroic couplet ( "decasyllabic").    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

I'll begin with the "decasyllabic line" and "Shakespearean blank verse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Mine Set] Reference