decasyllabic

• “Whether fifty thousand words of prose action or fourteen decasyllabic lines of verse with a strict rhyme scheme, a genre is a list of the minimal conditions that a writer must meet.”

  Genres and niche markets

• “Debbie has some fine Augustan echoes: rolling decasyllabic lines though with impish breaks that propel semantic leaps, as in the first few lines!”

  Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson

• “Yes, at some point in my past, I decided to note the number of syllables you'd use for the word "Canterbury" in order to make the verse come out "properly" decasyllabic.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “Yeah, it LOOKS iambic pentameter to me, too, but real medievalist verse types will tell you that it's not; it's something something decasyllabic verse.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “Sharon and the maids of Salem, and a prophecy that roses shall deck the entire country of Syria, and a speedy reign of peace be established — all in undeniably decasyllabic lines, and the queerest aping of sense and sentiment and poetry.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout.”

  Poems and Fragments

• “This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.”

  Poems and Fragments

• “Traditional readings of Keats's poetry (even up to the present day) assume a speaker of normative consciousness, a person testing the "limits" of visionary apprehension, an assumption encouraged by Keats's decasyllabic line (associated with speech conducted from the perspective of the social world).”

  Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

• “It is a decasyllabic line, with a trochee substituted for an iambus in the third foot — Around: me gleamed: many a: bright se: pulchre.”

  The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “Fourthly, if you take account of the said troublesome E, almost universally these deficient measures become filled up to the due complement -- become decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic, as the case may be.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

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