1. Lines of verse or poems composed in decasyllables (lines with ten syllables); works written in ten-syllable meter.
Usage: literary; technical; plural form

Examples

• The poet specialized in decasyllabics, crafting elegant ten-syllable lines throughout her collection.
• Many Renaissance sonnets employ decasyllabics as their primary metrical form.
• He studied the decasyllabics of classical French poetry to improve his own technique.
• The anthology featured various decasyllabics from different periods and traditions.