How To Use Decasyllable In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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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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
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While most sonnets conform to the usual rules of prosody, with their decasyllables and 14 rhymed lines, there are exceptions throughout the set.
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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
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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)
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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
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His hendecasyllables are both a tribute to Catullus and an interpretation of one aspect of his poetry.
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Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
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England blank verse, which he borrowed from the Italian _versi sciolti_, fixing that decasyllable iambic rhythm for English versification in which our greatest poetical triumphs have been achieved.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
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The hendecasyllable and scazon of Catullus became part and parcel of the poetic heritage of Rome, and Martial employs them only less happily than their matchless creator.
Horace
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Most of Shakespeare's lines conform to the normal type of the decasyllable, and the rest are accounted for by familiar and rational rules of variation.
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The form of the poem, or rather the form of the line, is one I come back to again and again: decasyllables.
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Had Sir Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of _Where man's mind hath a freed consideration_, every hendecasyllable like _Where sweet graces erect the stately banner_, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
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If I had tried to keep up the hendecasyllable meter I probably would have gone insane.
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In developing English equivalences for his Italian texts, he turned hendecasyllables into iambic pentameters and septenarii into iambic trimeters.
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Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of Where man's mind hath a freed consideration, every hendecasyllable like Where sweet graces erect the stately banner, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.
Poems and Fragments
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His mixed allegiance to Marlowe and Sidney gave him command of a splendid form of decasyllable, which appears often in _Phillis_, as for instance --
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The doggerel of the earlier years had almost entirely disappeared, and in its place appeared the perfect concerted music of the stanzas (from the sonnet and the Spenserian downwards), the infinite variety of the decasyllable, and the exquisite lyric snatches of song in the dramatists, pamphleteers, and music-book writers.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The division into two quartets followed by two tercets, a consistent rhyme scheme and the decasyllable stand out as these sonnets’ most obvious formal features.
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He accepted the dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse forms from the very beginning, and basically never abandoned them.
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It is also found in hendecasyllable, hendecagon, and hendecahedron.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
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The thing is possible: and I can modestly say that in the little effort appended as an example to these lines it has been done successfully; but here must be mentioned the second point in my thesis -- I could never have achieved what I have here achieved in dramatic art had I not harked back to the great tradition of the English heroic decasyllable such as our
On Something
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Each line of ‘I mari del Sud’ begins with a decasyllable composed of three anapestic feet.
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It is also found in hendecasyllable, hendecagon, and hendecahedron.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
