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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
The characteristics of Shakespeare's blank verse -- the rhymeless, iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter, introduced into— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
5-stress or heroic couplet ( "decasyllabic").— The Principles of English Versification
The gigantic nature of Payne's achievement will be realised when we mention that The Arabian Nights contains the equivalent of some twenty thousand decasyllabic lines of poetry, that is to say more than there are in Milton's Paradise Lost, and that he has rendered faithfully the whole of this enormous mass in accordance with the intricate metrical scheme of the original, and in felicitous and beautiful language.— The Life of Sir Richard Burton
The form of verse is not ballad-like, but a series of _laisses_ of decasyllabic lines, each _laisse_ presenting one assonance, not rhyme.— Homer and His Age
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