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Dodecasyllable
Dodecasyllable Do*dec"a*syl`la*ble, n. A word consisting of twelve syllables.

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- Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions 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...
- literature, though in earlier literature – such as the chanson de geste – the decasyllable grouped in laisses took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of...
- (10000 decasyllables), early 13th century Garin le Loherain [fr] (17000 decasyllables), 12th century Girbert de Metz [fr] (13000 decasyllables), end of...
- penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and octosyllabic, as opposed to the traditional decasyllable, which does occur in his chansons "Pré ne vergier ne boscaige foillu"...
- a Westerner" is a first-person monologue written in quatrains of one decasyllable followed by three Alexandrines, structured in enclosed rhyme. It is a...
- comprises 3,553 verses in ****onanced laisses; most of the verses are decasyllables, but there are occasional recurring short six-syllable lines. The poem...
- subjective mood of ****ual love. The basic meter in Moraes' love poetry is the decasyllable, taken mostly from Camões's lyric poetry. During his stay in England...
- is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines). The laisse is characterized by stereotyped...
- historical events to the accompaniment of this instrument, usually in the decasyllable meter. There are records of an instrument named gusle (гоусли) being...