adjective
- having ten syllables
Usage: poetry; linguistics
Examples
- The poet wrote in decasyllabic verse throughout the entire sonnet.
- Each line of the poem was carefully crafted to be decasyllabic.
- Shakespeare often used decasyllabic lines in his plays.
- The decasyllabic meter gave the verse a steady rhythm.
- Students analyzed the decasyllabic structure of the classical poem.
- The decasyllabic form was popular among Renaissance poets.