Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent (accentual verse), it is the equivalent of pentameter with iambs or trochees (particularly iambic pentameter). Decasyllable was used in epic poetry of the Southern Slavs (for ex... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decasyllable