A decasyllabic is a line of verse containing ten syllables. It is a common form in poetry, with many traditional forms such as blank verse, heroic couplets, and sonnets being structured around lines of ten syllables.
The word decasyllabic itself has only five syllables, though a decasyllabic word would have ten syllables.
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5 dec a·syl·lab ic
Chaucer To whom it may concern: Hello and bye. Miranda took a bitter pill today.
"Deca-" = ten Decasyllabic = ten syllables example = disestablishmentarianism
That's not a thing. But a ten-syllable word might be considered decasyllabic.
I sometimes wonder who is worthy here.
I sometimes wonder who is worthy here. -APEX
A sonnet with 10 syllables in each line is typically referred to as a decasyllabic sonnet. It is a specific form of the sonnet that follows a strict meter and rhyme scheme.
They use slant and rhymes
Blank verse is one of the most popular forms of English poetry. It is formed by using unrhyming Iambic pentameter lines. This simply means that each line of the poem must contain 10 syllables, and they do not rhyme. Shakespeare used this form of verse often.
it's such a long poem- I never hope to read it in all my life- I mean, who would be such a fool as to write a poem 242 lines long? Many people write so, but their poems are hardly ever read- because of their longevity.