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Poetic verse with ten syllables per line
Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of
Decasyllable
Lengthy poem dealing with supernatural forces
literature, though in earlier literature – such as the chanson de geste – the decasyllable grouped in laisses took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of
Epic_poetry
Long poem by Cesário Verde
a Westerner" is a first-person monologue written in quatrains of one decasyllable followed by three Alexandrines, structured in enclosed rhyme. It is a
The_Feeling_of_a_Westerner
Old French epic poem
comprises 3,553 verses in assonanced laisses; most of the verses are decasyllables, but there are occasional recurring short six-syllable lines. The poem
Chanson_de_Guillaume
Four-line stanza form
hendecasyllables, followed by an Alcaic enneasyllable and an Alcaic decasyllable. The Alcaic stanza exists only in a few fragments of Alcaeus's poetry
Alcaic_stanza
is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines). The laisse is characterized by stereotyped
Laisse
Poetic form, traditionally fourteen specifically rhymed lines
Czech poets use different metres for sonnets, Kollár and Mácha used decasyllables, Vrchlický iambic pentameter, Antonín Sova free verse, and Jiří Orten
Sonnet
Brazilian poet and lyricist (1913–1980)
subjective mood of sexual love. The basic meter in Moraes' love poetry is the decasyllable, taken mostly from Camões's lyric poetry. During his stay in England
Vinicius_de_Moraes
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Blank verse Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee "Iambic pentameter
Iambic_pentameter
Single-stringed musical instrument
historical events to the accompaniment of this instrument, usually in the decasyllable meter. There are records of an instrument named gousli (гоусли) being
Gusle
Brazilian composer and singer (born 1942)
it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are decasyllable and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have eight poetic syllables. Veloso
Caetano_Veloso
Poetic line of eleven syllables
contracted into a single long syllable. In poem 55 there are twelve decasyllables and ten normal lines: Ōrāmus, sī forte non molestum (e)st, dēmōnstrēs
Hendecasyllable
Verse form with six syllables per line
used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. octosyllable decasyllable hendecasyllable dodecasyllable Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005
Hexasyllable
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
composed of 5 syllables. Redondilha maior: composed of 7 syllables. Decasyllable (decassílabo): composed of 10 syllables. Mostly used in Parnassian sonnets
Metre_(poetry)
the approaches of preceding Portuguese poets. The metre used was the decasyllable—an analogue to iambic pentameter―also employed by the 16th-century poet
Translations_of_the_Odyssey
French poet (1524–1585)
that corresponds poorly with the genre of epic poetry. The metre (the decasyllable) could not but contrast unfavourably with the magnificent alexandrines
Pierre_de_Ronsard
Verse with eight syllables per line
and Telesillean meters. meter (poetry) hexasyllable – 6 syllable line decasyllable – 10 syllable line hendecasyllable – 11 syllable line dodecasyllable
Octosyllable
Group of epic poems
(10000 decasyllables), early 13th century Garin le Loherain [fr] (17000 decasyllables), 12th century Girbert de Metz [fr] (13000 decasyllables), end of
Lorraine_cycle
Title character of a 13th-century French epic poem
less complete manuscripts and two short fragments) comprises 10,553 decasyllable verses grouped in 91 assonanced laisses. Presumed dates for its composition
Huon_of_Bordeaux
British poet
(1973), author George MacDonald Fraser concludes a final scene with a decasyllable quatrain pastiche in Flecker’s style. Following many misadventures suffered
James_Elroy_Flecker
syllables. The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line
Medieval_French_literature
Poem by François Villon
French Subject(s) Hanged men, universal brotherhood Form Ballade Meter Decasyllable Rhyme scheme ababbccdad Final stanza: aabab Publisher Pierre Levet Publication
Ballade_des_pendus
Old French chanson de geste
include other chansons from the same cycle. The poem comprises 1,486 decasyllable verses in 57 assonanced laisses; there is no shorter syllable lines (found
Charroi_de_Nîmes
12th-century poem
about Guillaume called La Geste de Garin de Monglane, consists of 1,888 decasyllable verses in laisses. It combines motifs of courtly love with an epic story
Prise_d'Orange
Thirteenth-century chanson de geste
was written between 1230 and 1250, and consists of about 11000 rhymed decasyllables. A prose version of the tale is preserved in a manuscript of the late
Anseïs_de_Carthage
Tree branch or entire tree that is central to Serbian Christmas celebrations
poems that praise the Nativity of Jesus may be recited. In Montenegro, decasyllable Serbian epics are sung to an accompaniment played on the gusle, a traditional
Badnjak_(Serbian)
Impact of English playwright and poet
followed a decasyllabic rule [citation needed]. In Titus Andronicus, decasyllables have been used throughout. "There is a considerable pause; and though
Influence of William Shakespeare
Influence_of_William_Shakespeare
1920 poem written by Paul Valéry
according to the author, from the obsession with a certain rhythm, the decasyllable, and not of a thought. Paul Valéry has even underscored, perhaps with
Le_Cimetière_marin
Line of verse with twelve syllables
"alexandrine", after the French equivalent. hexasyllable, octosyllable, decasyllable, and hendecasyllable — lines of 6, 8, 10, and 11 syllables, respectively
Dodecasyllable
heroes Olivier and Roland. The poem comprises more than 6000 rhymed decasyllable verses grouped into laisses. It was likely based on a now lost earlier
Girart_de_Vienne
Wright Ltd.; Oliver and Boyd Inferno and Purgatorio Irregularly rhymed decasyllables 1931 Jefferson Butler Fletcher United States The Macmillan Company Comedy
List of English translations of the Divine Comedy
List_of_English_translations_of_the_Divine_Comedy
Frankish Burgundian leader
second half of the 12th century. The original text, written in rhymed decasyllables, is preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It was
Girart_de_Roussillon
French epic poem
certain sections are missing. The extant poem comprises roughly 8,542 decasyllable verses (depending on the edition and corrections made for missing material;
Raoul_de_Cambrai
("Beowulf spoke, son of Ecgtheow") and in the junacki deseterac (heroic decasyllable) of the demonstrably oral poetry of the Serbs: a besjedi od Orasca Tale
Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry
Oral-formulaic_theory_in_Anglo-Saxon_poetry
specifically Serbian epic poetry, by the bards, called guslari, usually in the decasyllable meter. The guslar holds the instrument vertically between his knees,
National_symbols_of_Serbia
17th-century South Slavic folk ballad
codification of the language. The meter of the ballad is classical South Slavic decasyllable or 10-syllable verse, translated by Goethe as trochaic pentameter.[citation
Hasanaginica
W X Y Z See also References dactyl dandy Débat death poem decadence decasyllable decorum denotation The most literal and limited meaning of a word, regardless
Glossary_of_literary_terms
Double dactyl Octosyllable: metrical line consisting of 8 syllables. Decasyllable: metrical line consisting of 10 syllables. Hendecasyllable: metrical
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
Passage from ''The Betrothed'' by Alessandro Manzoni
describe it as a poem in prose; in effect we can find some verses (decasyllables and hendecasyllables) hidden in the text. The register is high-level
Farewell_to_the_Mountains
12th-century Old French epic poem
for a chanson de geste), grouped into rhymed laisses. The verses are decasyllables mixed with alexandrines. The invading African Saracen forces under King
Aspremont_(chanson_de_geste)
kolo dance circles. Bećarac uses a strict form of couplet in trochaic decasyllable, always sung to the same music, played by a tamburitza orchestra, less
Bećarac
the fact that Nostradamus wrote his Propheties in rhymed four-line decasyllables called quatrains. Nostradamus also never referred to a "third big war"
Nostradamus in popular culture
Nostradamus_in_popular_culture
comprises 4,708 verses grouped into 122 rhymed laisses; the verses are all decasyllables except for a short six syllable line at the end of each laisse (a similar
Aymeri_de_Narbonne
List of Serbian epic folk poems categorized by cycles
Danube Married the Sava) Deseterac o Pavlu Stremljaninu i Đerzelez Aliji (Decasyllable about Pavle Stremljanin and Đerzelez Alija) – Siege of Šabac Đakon Stefan
List_of_Serbian_epic_poems
12th-century Old French verse romance
Tyre) derives from an anonymous Poitevin author who reworked, into decasyllables, a late eleventh or early twelfth century Franco-Provençal octosyllable
Roman_d'Alexandre
13th-century French composer
penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and octosyllabic, as opposed to the traditional decasyllable, which does occur in his chansons "Pré ne vergier ne boscaige foillu"
Jehan_Erart
South Slavic ethnic group
number of folk songs, such as Groktalice (epic-lyric songs written in decasyllable – a poetic meter of ten syllables in poetic tradition of syllabic verse)
Bunjevci
1988 studio album by Bijelo Dugme
like the lyrics from a two-hundred-year-old folk poem, in classical decasyllable! — the verse that is more "our" than any other, with vowing through repeating
Ćiribiribela
French poem
changes. Another factor might have been the verse form: Ronsard wrote in decasyllables, not alexandrines. Other reasons, too, have been put forward. More recently
Franciade_(poem)
Poetry written in French
mesurée"]). The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line
French_poetry
17th century Serbian literature
around 1700 which contains the earliest records of the heroic songs in decasyllable verse (Serbian: deseterac). The origin of the songs recorded in Perast
Perast_manuscript
1978 song by Chico Buarque and Milton Nascimento
militaristic texture that evokes warlike tension. The stanzas are composed in decasyllables, alternating between Gil and Buarque with the vocal delivery respecting
Cálice
Legendary English hero
Three continental French chansons de geste of Beuve d'Hanstone, all in decasyllables, were written in the 13th century. One is preserved in BnF Français
Bevis_of_Hampton
Sung epic poem originating in Ukraine
structural differences: dumy lack a fixed metre such as the South Slavic decasyllable, favouring unequal lines and prose-like syntactic periods, and their
Duma_(epic)
Panamanian writer and artist
political messages, as most of his works are fundamental. His mastery of the decasyllable writing imprints Poemas Corporales with a classical accent comparable
Carlos_Francisco_Chang_Marín
14th century French nobleman
(extant in 4 manuscripts) La Complainte de l'an nouvel, written in decasyllables (extant in 2 manuscripts) La Pastourelle, written in octosyllables (extant
Oton_III_de_Grandson
Old French chanson de geste
modernised Jourdain de Blaye) is an Old French chanson de geste written in decasyllables around 1200. It is an adventure story, largely inspired by the ancient
Jordain_de_Blaivies
Old French epic poem
language. Metrically, it has two distinctly different parts—the first in decasyllables (divided 6/4, an unusual measure), the second in alexandrines. The manuscript
Aiol_and_Mirabel
Old Occitan chanson de geste
lines, grouped in 53 monorhymed laisses of alexandrines (1–138) and decasyllables (139–2198), but the last fifteen being only partially readable [1],
Daurel_e_Betó
Serbian activist (1850–1930)
"Shtokavian-Ekavian subdivision". He noted that the local epic poetry is most often decasyllable, as in Serbian, and traditionally mentioned medieval Serbian rulers.
Despot_Badžović
Provenço-Catalan poet and knight
Like Ausiàs, Arnau was a master of variable metres in an era when the decasyllable was dominant (Riquer, 682). An overview of his poetry and biography can
Arnau_March
French composer
pentasyllables, all of Carasaus's works have only heptasyllables and decasyllables. All his melodies are in bar form; but Pour ce me sui de chanter entremis
Carasaus
Book by Thomas Moore
differentiated by the poetic form of their letters: Phelim declaims in decasyllables, Phil trips in lighter octosyllables, while Bob and Biddy chatter colloquially
The_Fudge_Family_in_Paris
Catalan poet (fl. 1396–1433)
hexasyllabic Consolació o Avís d'amor, which ends with a summary stanza in decasyllables. The purpose of the work is as consolation (consolació) and counsel
Luys_Ycart
alexandrines in a tragedy (acts I and IV), but he also resorted to decasyllables (acts II, III, V). In the choirs, he resorted to various meters: some
Cléopâtre_captive
written during this time. All of Eustache's poems are in isometric decasyllables; stanzas are usually eight lines in length with two rhymes. His melodies
Eustache_le_Peintre_de_Reims
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Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
A Holy Saint
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
The One who Fights for Peace
Girl/Female
Tamil
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Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Brave
Boy/Male
Japanese
Japanese god of labour and luck.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Exalted; Highest Social Standing
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Giving Inspiration
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
One, United
Boy/Male
Sikh
Lively
Girl/Female
Danish, French, German, Greek, Portuguese
Of the Sun; Sun Ray; Shining Light
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