decasyllable
/ˈdɛkəˌsɪləbəl/
noun
- A word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables.
- The poet experimented by writing a decasyllable that felt both formal and conversational.
- Each line of the sonnet is a perfect decasyllable, with no extra syllables.
- The word 'unquestionably' is a decasyllable, though it is rarely used in poetry.
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