noun
- Lines of verse or poems composed in decasyllables (lines with ten syllables); works written in ten-syllable meter.
Usage: literary; technical; plural form
Examples
- The poet specialized in decasyllabics, crafting elegant ten-syllable lines throughout her collection.
- Many Renaissance sonnets employ decasyllabics as their primary metrical form.
- He studied the decasyllabics of classical French poetry to improve his own technique.
- The anthology featured various decasyllabics from different periods and traditions.