How To Use decasyllable In A Sentence
- How DID you learn the secret of writing the decasyllable line, and whence that sweet wailing note of tenderness that accompanies your song? Roundabout Papers
- The deviations from the normal type, or decasyllable line, were they more numerous than, after allowance for the license of pronunciation, as well as the probable corruption of the text, they appear to be, would not, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
- The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout. Poems and Fragments
- Marlowe the tragic decasyllable, put into the hands of the still greater group who succeeded them an instrument, the power of which it is impossible to exaggerate. A History of Elizabethan Literature
- While most sonnets conform to the usual rules of prosody, with their decasyllables and 14 rhymed lines, there are exceptions throughout the set.
- Both doggerel and fourteeners appear in the quaint productions called _Three Ladies of London_, etc.; but by this time the decasyllable began to appear with them and to edge them out. A History of Elizabethan Literature
- I do not know, and it would probably be difficult to say, what was the first appearance of the decasyllable, which in German, as in English, was to become on the whole the staple measure of non-lyrical poetry and the not infrequent medium of lyrical. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
- Wyatt's awkwardness is not limited to the decasyllable, but some of his short poems in short lines recover rhythmical grace very remarkably, and set a great example. A History of Elizabethan Literature
- His hendecasyllables are both a tribute to Catullus and an interpretation of one aspect of his poetry.
- Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
