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Decasyllable
Rabu, 2024-05-22 05:08:28Graveyard by the Sea" (Le Cimetière marin) is, however, written in decasyllables. Similarly, South Slavic and in particular Serbian epic poetry sung...
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Kamis, 2024-06-20 00:40:37is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines). The laisse is characterized by stereotyped...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 10:22:32(10000 decasyllables), early 13th century Garin le Loherain [fr] (17000 decasyllables), 12th century Girbert de Metz [fr] (13000 decasyllables), end of...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 04:18:46literature, though in earlier literature – such as the chanson de geste – the decasyllable grouped in laisses took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 03:22:15Czech poets use different metres for sonnets, Kollár and Mácha used decasyllables, Vrchlický iambic pentameter, Antonín Sova free verse, and Jiří Orten...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:01:47comprises 3,553 verses in assonanced laisses; most of the verses are decasyllables, but there are occasional recurring short six-syllable lines. The poem...
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Jumat, 2026-04-24 16:13:40underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Blank verse Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee "Iambic pentameter...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 20:15:48was written between 1230 and 1250, and consists of about 11000 rhymed decasyllables. A prose version of the tale is preserved in a manuscript of the late...
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Kamis, 2026-01-08 03:04:21a Westerner" is a first-person monologue written in quatrains of one decasyllable followed by three Alexandrines, structured in enclosed rhyme. It is a...
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Minggu, 2026-04-19 07:29:42composed of 5 syllables. Redondilha maior: composed of 7 syllables. Decasyllable (decassílabo): composed of 10 syllables. Mostly used in Parnassian sonnets...
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Minggu, 2025-04-13 18:00:59changes. Another factor might have been the verse form: Ronsard wrote in decasyllables, not alexandrines. Other reasons, too, have been put forward. More recently...
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Rabu, 2026-04-08 14:08:03Tyre) derives from an anonymous Poitevin author who reworked, into decasyllables, a late eleventh or early twelfth century Franco-Provençal octosyllable...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 17:37:08contracted into a single long syllable. In poem 55 there are twelve decasyllables and ten normal lines: Ōrāmus, sī forte non molestum (e)st, dēmōnstrēs...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:49:25over 2,200 stanzas in rhyming verse, using either hendecasyllables or decasyllables, which made the text widely readable. The first Odyssey in the Russian...
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Senin, 2025-09-01 21:22:54describe it as a poem in prose; in effect we can find some verses (decasyllables and hendecasyllables) hidden in the text. The register is high-level...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:18:29followed a decasyllabic rule [citation needed]. In Titus Andronicus, decasyllables have been used throughout. "There is a considerable pause; and though...
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Minggu, 2024-11-17 21:41:16used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. octosyllable decasyllable hendecasyllable dodecasyllable Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005...
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Senin, 2024-02-05 21:09:36hendecasyllables, followed by an Alcaic enneasyllable and an Alcaic decasyllable. The Alcaic stanza exists only in a few fragments of Alcaeus's poetry...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:29:51it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are decasyllable and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have eight poetic syllables. Veloso...
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Jumat, 2026-02-13 23:50:40subjective mood of sexual love. The basic meter in Moraes' love poetry is the decasyllable, taken mostly from Camões's lyric poetry. During his stay in England...
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Minggu, 2026-03-15 02:35:07historical events to the accompaniment of this instrument, usually in the decasyllable meter. There are records of an instrument named gousli (гоусли) being...
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Rabu, 2026-03-04 01:34:39syllables. The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:31:45Wright Ltd.; Oliver and Boyd Inferno and Purgatorio Irregularly rhymed decasyllables 1931 Jefferson Butler Fletcher United States The Macmillan Company Comedy...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 02:16:54Three continental French chansons de geste of Beuve d'Hanstone, all in decasyllables, were written in the 13th century. One is preserved in BnF Français...
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Minggu, 2026-03-22 19:38:41lines, grouped in 53 monorhymed laisses of alexandrines (1–138) and decasyllables (139–2198), but the last fifteen being only partially readable [1],...
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Senin, 2024-11-18 12:00:24"alexandrine", after the French equivalent. hexasyllable, octosyllable, decasyllable, and hendecasyllable — lines of 6, 8, 10, and 11 syllables, respectively...
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Minggu, 2026-02-01 01:07:01militaristic texture that evokes warlike tension. The stanzas are composed in decasyllables, alternating between Gil and Buarque with the vocal delivery respecting...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-02 03:50:36that corresponds poorly with the genre of epic poetry. The metre (the decasyllable) could not but contrast unfavourably with the magnificent alexandrines...
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Rabu, 2026-04-01 23:44:00the fact that Nostradamus wrote his Propheties in rhymed four-line decasyllables called quatrains. Nostradamus also never referred to a "third big war"...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:15:25(1973), author George MacDonald Fraser concludes a final scene with a decasyllable quatrain pastiche in Flecker’s style. Following many misadventures suffered...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-02 14:13:04(extant in 4 manuscripts) La Complainte de l'an nouvel, written in decasyllables (extant in 2 manuscripts) La Pastourelle, written in octosyllables (extant...
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Jumat, 2023-12-01 15:56:08comprises 4,708 verses grouped into 122 rhymed laisses; the verses are all decasyllables except for a short six syllable line at the end of each laisse (a similar...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 23:14:41alexandrines in a tragedy (acts I and IV), but he also resorted to decasyllables (acts II, III, V). In the choirs, he resorted to various meters: some...
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Rabu, 2026-04-08 18:05:33specifically Serbian epic poetry, by the bards, called guslari, usually in the decasyllable meter. The guslar holds the instrument vertically between his knees,...
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Senin, 2026-02-16 22:18:32poems that praise the Nativity of Jesus may be recited. In Montenegro, decasyllable Serbian epics are sung to an accompaniment played on the gusle, a traditional...
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Jumat, 2026-04-10 04:28:01less complete manuscripts and two short fragments) comprises 10,553 decasyllable verses grouped in 91 assonanced laisses. Presumed dates for its composition...
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Selasa, 2025-11-04 05:41:05Double dactyl Octosyllable: metrical line consisting of 8 syllables. Decasyllable: metrical line consisting of 10 syllables. Hendecasyllable: metrical...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 18:50:18number of folk songs, such as Groktalice (epic-lyric songs written in decasyllable – a poetic meter of ten syllables in poetic tradition of syllabic verse)...
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Jumat, 2026-01-30 19:35:08heroes Olivier and Roland. The poem comprises more than 6000 rhymed decasyllable verses grouped into laisses. It was likely based on a now lost earlier...
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Jumat, 2026-01-23 18:27:29W X Y Z See also References dactyl dandy Débat death poem decadence decasyllable decorum denotation The most literal and limited meaning of a word, regardless...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 05:09:43and Telesillean meters. meter (poetry) hexasyllable – 6 syllable line decasyllable – 10 syllable line hendecasyllable – 11 syllable line dodecasyllable...
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Minggu, 2025-01-26 17:21:02second half of the 12th century. The original text, written in rhymed decasyllables, is preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It was...
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Jumat, 2024-05-10 10:03:13written during this time. All of Eustache's poems are in isometric decasyllables; stanzas are usually eight lines in length with two rhymes. His melodies...
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Rabu, 2026-03-25 19:14:41modernised Jourdain de Blaye) is an Old French chanson de geste written in decasyllables around 1200. It is an adventure story, largely inspired by the ancient...
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Minggu, 2026-03-29 22:09:21for a chanson de geste), grouped into rhymed laisses. The verses are decasyllables mixed with alexandrines. The invading African Saracen forces under King...
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Selasa, 2025-03-11 23:17:08include other chansons from the same cycle. The poem comprises 1,486 decasyllable verses in 57 assonanced laisses; there is no shorter syllable lines (found...
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Minggu, 2025-06-08 18:28:53language. Metrically, it has two distinctly different parts—the first in decasyllables (divided 6/4, an unusual measure), the second in alexandrines. The manuscript...
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Minggu, 2025-07-27 23:25:38differentiated by the poetic form of their letters: Phelim declaims in decasyllables, Phil trips in lighter octosyllables, while Bob and Biddy chatter colloquially...
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Selasa, 2024-04-02 15:41:22about Guillaume called La Geste de Garin de Monglane, consists of 1,888 decasyllable verses in laisses. It combines motifs of courtly love with an epic story...
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Minggu, 2026-03-08 15:49:32according to the author, from the obsession with a certain rhythm, the decasyllable, and not of a thought. Paul Valéry has even underscored, perhaps with...
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Rabu, 2026-02-04 21:30:10codification of the language. The meter of the ballad is classical South Slavic decasyllable or 10-syllable verse, translated by Goethe as trochaic pentameter.[citation...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 13:52:05especially in kolo dance. Bećarac uses a strict form of couplet in trochaic decasyllable, always sung to the same music, played by a tamburitza orchestra, less...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-21 20:59:03("Beowulf spoke, son of Ecgtheow") and in the junacki deseterac (heroic decasyllable) of the demonstrably oral poetry of the Serbs: a besjedi od Orasca Tale...
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Senin, 2024-06-17 07:33:41pentasyllables, all of Carasaus's works have only heptasyllables and decasyllables. All his melodies are in bar form; but Pour ce me sui de chanter entremis...
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Rabu, 2024-09-25 19:20:02certain sections are missing. The extant poem comprises roughly 8,542 decasyllable verses (depending on the edition and corrections made for missing material;...
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Minggu, 2026-05-10 18:29:11like the lyrics from a two-hundred-year-old folk poem, in classical decasyllable! — the verse that is more "our" than any other, with vowing through repeating...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-14 00:39:36Danube Married the Sava) Deseterac o Pavlu Stremljaninu i Đerzelez Aliji (Decasyllable about Pavle Stremljanin and Đerzelez Alija) – Siege of Šabac Đakon Stefan...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:32:51structural differences: dumy lack a fixed metre such as the South Slavic decasyllable, favouring unequal lines and prose-like syntactic periods, and their...
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Minggu, 2026-01-11 10:43:24mesurée"]). The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line...
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Selasa, 2026-01-13 18:51:47hexasyllabic Consolació o Avís d'amor, which ends with a summary stanza in decasyllables. The purpose of the work is as consolation (consolació) and counsel...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 07:30:28around 1700 which contains the earliest records of the heroic songs in decasyllable verse (Serbian: deseterac). The origin of the songs recorded in Perast...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 16:22:30"Shtokavian-Ekavian subdivision". He noted that the local epic poetry is most often decasyllable, as in Serbian, and traditionally mentioned medieval Serbian rulers....
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Senin, 2025-10-13 01:42:48penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and octosyllabic, as opposed to the traditional decasyllable, which does occur in his chansons "Pré ne vergier ne boscaige foillu"...
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Jumat, 2026-03-27 08:47:09political messages, as most of his works are fundamental. His mastery of the decasyllable writing imprints Poemas Corporales with a classical accent comparable...
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Selasa, 2026-01-13 18:49:37Like Ausiàs, Arnau was a master of variable metres in an era when the decasyllable was dominant (Riquer, 682). An overview of his poetry and biography can...
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