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What is a dodecasyllable?

What is a dodecasyllable? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A word consisting of twelve syllables.
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This dodecasyllable has a short metrical pause after the sixth syllable, and a longer one after the twelfth.
Hitherto the decasyllable and the dodecasyllable had been used indiscriminately, and Ronsard's Franciade is written in the former.
He accepted the dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse forms from the very beginning, and basically never abandoned them.

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