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. |