1. 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.