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decasyllable

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a verse line having ten syllables

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Caesura is typical for syllabic metres of French and Polish poetry and for "osmerac" (octosyllable) and "deseterac" (decasyllable) of Serbocroatian folk song. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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