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Dodecasyllabic
Dodecasyllabic Do*dec`a*syl*lab"ic, a. [Gr. ? twelve + E. syllabic.] Having twelve syllables.
Hendecasyllabic
Hendecasyllabic Hen*dec`a*syl*lab"ic, a. Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.

Meaning of Decasyllabic from wikipedia

- sung with the accompaniment of the gusle is traditionally sung in the decasyllabic verse. In 19th-century Italian opera, this form was often emplo**** in...
- Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB....
- pentameter usually contain ten syllables, it is considered a form of decasyllabic verse. An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed...
- referred to as a decasyllabic quatrain. Rather than write in the heroic couplets found in his earlier works, Dryden used the decasyllabic quatrain exemplified...
- Shakespeare's gift involved using the exuberance of the language and decasyllabic structure in prose and poetry of his plays to reach the m****es and the...
- Grave" and "The Wife of Usher's Well" are both examples of ballad meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in...
- Meaux. Modified verse versions were produced in the 14th century. The decasyllabic Roman d'Ogier appeared (31000vv., early 14th cent. or c. 1310) which...
- he was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line, a decasyllabic cousin to the iambic pentametre, in his work, with only a few anonymous...
- The reworkings (or rifacimenti) exist in decasyllabic form (Rifacimento A) and alexandrines (B). The decasyllabic Roman d'Ogier (c. 1310) summarized by Knut...
- the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form...