| It is a decasyllable line, probably borrowed from French and Italian forms, with riding rhyme and, occasionally, a caesura in the middle of a line. |
| Most of Shakespeare's lines conform to the normal type of the decasyllable, and the rest are accounted for by familiar and rational rules of variation. |
| The majority of poems, however, are short decasyllable poems called Amours, which engage current debate on the various viewpoints on love. |
| In Montenegro, decasyllable Serbian epics are sung to an accompaniment played on the gusle, a traditional Serbian bowed string instrument. |
| The shorter length of the decasyllable line is not altogether a disadvantage to the translator. |
| Hitherto the decasyllable and the dodecasyllable had been used indiscriminately, and Ronsard's Franciade is written in the former. |
