| The majority of poems, however, are short decasyllable poems called Amours, which engage current debate on the various viewpoints on love. |
| Hitherto the decasyllable and the dodecasyllable had been used indiscriminately, and Ronsard's Franciade is written in the former. |
| The shorter length of the decasyllable line is not altogether a disadvantage to the translator. |
| The French alexandrine is currently the heroic line in French literature, though in earlier periods the decasyllable took precedence. |
| In Serbian poetry, the decasyllable is the only form employed. |
| 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. |
