decasyllabic
/ˌdɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk/
adjective
- Having ten syllables in a line of verse or in a word.
- The poet wrote a decasyllabic sonnet with exactly ten syllables per line.
- Many of Shakespeare's lines are decasyllabic, following a regular iambic pattern.
- The teacher asked the class to identify whether the verse was decasyllabic or octosyllabic.