How To Use Decasyllabic In A Sentence
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The classical hendecasyllabic meter chosen for this lyric melodiously prompts us to seek ancient mythic analogues.
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Sharon and the maids of Salem, and a prophecy that roses shall deck the entire country of Syria, and a speedy reign of peace be established — all in undeniably decasyllabic lines, and the queerest aping of sense and sentiment and poetry.
The History of Pendennis
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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.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout.
Poems and Fragments
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I then decided to translate the whole of Gambara's poem, from hendecasyllabic line to line as closely as clear English allows - that is I began with Dryden's method of metaphrase.
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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.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Debbie has some fine Augustan echoes: rolling decasyllabic lines though with impish breaks that propel semantic leaps, as in the first few lines!
Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson
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In Catullus, he sets himself a new and fascinating challenge: he tries to imitate in English all Catullus's meters - sapphics, hendecasyllabics, iambics, choliambics, even galliambics.
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In the decasyllabic line the cesura generally followed the fourth, but sometimes the sixth, tonic syllable.]
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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During his brief but turbulent life, he wrote some thirty lyric poems, as well as several in the decasyllabic tradition.
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The metres most often employed are elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the scazon.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
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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.
Rational Review
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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’.
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This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.
Poems and Fragments
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Unlike Southwell's four other nativity poems, this one is written in decasyllabic six-ains, which we find frequently in his poetry.
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His famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
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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.
Genres and niche markets
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The most outstanding of the Catalan translators was Josep Maria de Sagarra, who, starting in the 1940s, translated 27 plays into Catalan hendecasyllabic lines.
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Chief among these are phalaecean (also known as hendecasyllabics), which he employs in some forty poems, followed numerically by choliambic (which also bears the title scazon), the meter of eight poems.
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Rucellai's famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of versi sciolti, or unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
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His sixty-four lines of rhyming hendecasyllabic couplets are juxtaposed with a considerably briefer fifty-three lines of English free verse.
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More precisely, you adapt a variation of decasyllabic meter, where your lines alternate between thirteen and seven syllables each.