Definition & Meaning | English word DECASYLLABLES
DECASYLLABLES
Definitions of DECASYLLABLES
- plural of decasyllable.
Number of letters
13
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DECASYLLABLES in a Sentence
- Each character is further differentiated by the poetic form of their letters: Phelim declaims in decasyllables, Phil trips in lighter octosyllables, while Bob and Biddy chatter colloquially in anapaestic measure.
- Within a poem, the length of each separate laisse is variable (whereas the metric length of the verses is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines).
- The first branch (derived from the so-called Decasyllabic Alexander: Alexander's childhood leading to the siege of Tyre) derives from an anonymous Poitevin author who reworked, into decasyllables, a late eleventh or early twelfth century Franco-Provençal octosyllable version of the Alexander story by Albéric de Briançon (itself based in part on a ninth-century Latin epitome of the Julius Valerius' translation of the Alexander story).
- Besides Fine amours, which has pentasyllables, all of Carasaus's works have only heptasyllables and decasyllables.
- The poem comprises 3,553 verses in assonanced laisses; most of the verses are decasyllables, but there are occasional recurring short six-syllable lines.
- Metrically, it has two distinctly different parts—the first in decasyllables (divided 6/4, an unusual measure), the second in alexandrines.
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