: consisting of 10 syllables or composed of verses of 10 syllables.

What do you call a 10 syllables?

Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. ... Use of the 10 syllable line in French poetry was eclipsed by the 12 syllable alexandrine line, particularly after the 16th century.

What does Decasyllabic mean in poetry?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB.