decasyllabic

• Diz-se de verso ou linha poética que tem dez sílabas. Usado na análise métrica e na poesia para classificar esse tipo de verso.

Describes a line of verse consisting of ten syllables, often used in poetic and metrical analysis.

1. Having ten syllablesC2formal

   Describes a line of verse or a word that consists of ten syllables.

   Decassílabo

   • The poet wrote in decasyllabic lines, a common meter in epic poetry.
   • Shakespeare often used decasyllabic verse in his sonnets.
   • A decasyllabic word is rare in English, but 'antidisestablishment' is one example.