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Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent (accentual verse), it is the equivalent of pentameter with iambs or trochees (particularly iambic pentameter).
Decasyllable was used in epic poetry of the Southern Slavs (for example Serbian epic poetry sung to the gusle instrument).
Medieval French heroic epics (the chansons de geste) were most often composed in 10 syllable verses (from which, the decasyllable was termed "heroic verse"), generally with a regular caesura after the forth syllable. (The medieval French romance (roman) was however most often written in 8 syllable (or octosyllable) verse.) Use of the 10 syllable line in French poetry however was eclipsed by the 12 syllable "alexandrine" line, particularly after the 16th century.
See also
- meter (poetry)
- dodecasyllable - 12 syllable line
- octosyllable - 8 syllable line
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