Definition of decasyllabic in English:
decasyllabic
adjective ˌdɛkəsɪˈlabɪkˌdɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk
Prosody (of a metrical line) consisting of ten syllables.
Example sentencesExamples
- During his brief but turbulent life, he wrote some thirty lyric poems, as well as several in the decasyllabic tradition.
- John Gurney said that what he liked about the decasyllabic line was that it could be made close to conversation but was yet ` something better than prose’.
- More precisely, you adapt a variation of decasyllabic meter, where your lines alternate between thirteen and seven syllables each.
- Unlike Southwell's four other nativity poems, this one is written in decasyllabic six-ains, which we find frequently in his poetry.
- They should be ruled rather by accent than by mere beat, but in no case may there be a line or lines which cannot be read as decasyllabic without difficulty or hesitation.
Definition of decasyllabic in US English:
decasyllabic
adjectiveˌdɛkəsɪˈlæbɪkˌdekəsiˈlabik
Prosody (of a metrical line) consisting of ten syllables.
Example sentencesExamples
- More precisely, you adapt a variation of decasyllabic meter, where your lines alternate between thirteen and seven syllables each.
- They should be ruled rather by accent than by mere beat, but in no case may there be a line or lines which cannot be read as decasyllabic without difficulty or hesitation.
- During his brief but turbulent life, he wrote some thirty lyric poems, as well as several in the decasyllabic tradition.
- Unlike Southwell's four other nativity poems, this one is written in decasyllabic six-ains, which we find frequently in his poetry.
- John Gurney said that what he liked about the decasyllabic line was that it could be made close to conversation but was yet ` something better than prose’.