-
Graveyard by the Sea" (Le Cimetière marin) is, however,
written in
decasyllables. Similarly,
South Slavic and in
particular Serbian epic
poetry sung...
- (10000
decasyllables),
early 13th
century Garin le Loherain [fr] (17000
decasyllables), 12th
century Girbert de Metz [fr] (13000
decasyllables), end of...
- is invariable, each
verse having the same
syllable length,
typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines). The
laisse is
characterized by stereotyped...
-
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...
- literature,
though in
earlier literature – such as the
chanson de
geste – the
decasyllable grouped in
laisses took precedence. In
Polish literature,
couplets of...
-
Czech poets use
different metres for sonnets, Kollár and Mácha used
decasyllables, Vrchlický
iambic pentameter, Antonín Sova free verse, and Jiří Orten...
- was
written between 1230 and 1250, and
consists of
about 11000
rhymed decasyllables. A
prose version of the tale is
preserved in a m****cript of the late...
-
comprises 3,553
verses in ****onanced laisses; most of the
verses are
decasyllables, but
there are
occasional recurring short six-syllable lines. The poem...
- Tyre)
derives from an
anonymous Poitevin author who reworked, into
decasyllables, a late
eleventh or
early twelfth century Franco-Provençal octosyllable...
- changes.
Another factor might have been the
verse form:
Ronsard wrote in
decasyllables, not alexandrines.
Other reasons, too, have been put forward. More recently...
