Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of...

literature, though in earlier literature – such as the chanson de geste – the decasyllable grouped in laisses took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of...

contracted into a single long syllable. In poem 55 there are twelve decasyllables and ten normal lines: Poem 58b is thought by some scholars to be a fragment...

(10000 decasyllables), early 13th century Garin le Loherain [fr] (17000 decasyllables), 12th century Girbert de Metz [fr] (13000 decasyllables), end of...

subjective mood of sexual love. The basic meter in Moraes' love poetry is the decasyllable, taken mostly from Camões's lyric poetry. During his stay in England...

a Westerner" is a first-person monologue written in quatrains of one decasyllable followed by three Alexandrines, structured in enclosed rhyme. It is a...

is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines). The laisse is characterized by stereotyped...

comprises 3,553 verses in assonanced laisses; most of the verses are decasyllables, but there are occasional recurring short six-syllable lines. The poem...

historical events to the accompaniment of this instrument, usually in the decasyllable meter. There are records of an instrument named gusle (гоусли) being...

it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are decasyllable and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have eight poetic syllables. Veloso...

penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and octosyllabic, as opposed to the traditional decasyllable, which does occur in his chansons "Pré ne vergier ne boscaige foillu"...

"alexandrine", after the French equivalent. hexasyllable, octosyllable, decasyllable, and hendecasyllable — lines of 6, 8, 10, and 11 syllables, respectively...

used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. octosyllable decasyllable hendecasyllable dodecasyllable Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005...

comprises 4,708 verses grouped into 122 rhymed laisses; the verses are all decasyllables except for a short six syllable line at the end of each laisse (a similar...

is underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee Blank verse "Poetry...

hendecasyllables, followed by an Alcaic enneasyllable and an Alcaic decasyllable. The Alcaic stanza exists only in a few fragments of Alcaeus's poetry...

narration (as in Chaucer). meter (poetry) hexasyllable – 6 syllable line decasyllable – 10 syllable line hendecasyllable – 11 syllable line dodecasyllable...

less complete manuscripts and two short fragments) comprises 10,553 decasyllable verses grouped in 91 assonanced laisses. Presumed dates for its composition...

Czech poets use different metres for sonnets, Kollár and Mácha used decasyllables, Vrchlický iambic pentameter, Antonín Sova free verse, and Jiří Orten...

composed of 5 syllables. Redondilha maior: composed of 7 syllables. Decasyllable (decassílabo): composed of 10 syllables. Mostly used in Parnassian sonnets...

(1973), author George MacDonald Fraser concludes a final scene with a decasyllable quatrain pastiche in Flecker’s style. Following many misadventures suffered...

heroes Olivier and Roland. The poem comprises more than 6000 rhymed decasyllable verses grouped into laisses. It was likely based on a now lost earlier...

syllables. The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line...

that corresponds poorly with the genre of epic poetry. The metre (the decasyllable) could not but contrast unfavourably with the magnificent alexandrines...

second half of the 12th century. The original text, written in rhymed decasyllables, is preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It was...

poems that praise the Nativity of Jesus may be recited. In Montenegro, decasyllable Serbian epics are sung to an accompaniment played on the gusle, a traditional...

include other chansons from the same cycle. The poem comprises 1,486 decasyllable verses in 57 assonanced laisses; there is no shorter syllable lines (found...

certain sections are missing. The extant poem comprises roughly 8,542 decasyllable verses (depending on the edition and corrections made for missing material;...

describe it as a poem in prose; in effect we can find some verses (decasyllables and hendecasyllables) hidden in the text. The register is high-level...

the fact that Nostradamus wrote his Propheties in rhymed four-line decasyllables called quatrains. Nostradamus also never referred to a "third big war"...