In other words, while Matic's principal claim that all
decasyllabic epic songs about the Kosovo battle originated and existed solely in the Srem region is not very convincing, his arguments do question commonly held views that the folk songs celebrating Kosovo heroism and Lazar's commitment to the heavenly kingdom "have had huge audiences over the centuries." (14)
As well as fine texts of the two edited poems, Jean Blacker's edition includes a useful introduction, a translation into modern English of the
decasyllabic version, a list of manuscript variants, a selective glossary, and indexes of proper names.
Only he can't tell an Alexandrine from a
decasyllabic verse." He then punishes Doinel, an act that one preservice teacher interprets as follows: The teacher punishes Doinel in two ways.
JK: I used
decasyllabics in those and some other poems (and other syllabics--in the first section of Domes, for instance) to keep my tendency towards pentameter in check.
Though we will be horrified when we remember the hard life that the protagonist, Nadezhda Mandelstam, was forced to lead, our predominant reaction to this verse play will be delight in Davenport's presentation, in unrhymed
decasyllabic lines, of Mandelstam responding with wit and spirit to the younger party-line lunk who is the other actor in the drama.
Section C, "Petites Odes," contains no poems in alexandrines or
decasyllabic lines.
But even if more space had been employed it would not have been feasible to represent the (roughly)
decasyllabic lines as verse.
His satirical
decasyllabic poem, Le mondain, sang the praises of the luxury and elegance of modern man and said that the primitive people had "long nails, rather black and grimy, and rather dishevelled hair".
Blank verse first appeared in Italian poetry of the Renaissance as an unrhymed variant of the endecasillabo, then was transplanted to England as the unrhymed
decasyllabic or iambic pentameter ...
While maintaining the original ababbcbc rhyme scheme, the translator lengthens the octosyllabic lines of the French into
decasyllabic lines in English, thereby providing a certain elasticity to the translation.
The strict formalism of Cluny's work-twelve
decasyllabic twelve-line poems for the first part, "L'ete en Toscane," free verse for the second and longest part, "Arezzo: Fresques de Piero della Francesca," and thirteen
decasyllabic thirteen-line poems for the third part, "Tombeaux etrusques"-indicates a concern for formal perfection, symmetry, order, and musicality.
The adult fairies, Oberon and Titania, speak in blank verse and in
decasyllabic couplets, Oberon delivering his magic charms in octosyllabic trochaics; the other fairies speak in
decasyllabic couplets, and in rhymed short verse ('eight and six'); the noblemen speak in blank verse, and in prose during the play scene; the lovers speak in blank verse and in
decasyllabic couplets; while the mechanicals belong in prose but put on, for histrionic purposes, a range of verse forms as unexpected and as incompetently managed as their costumes and acting.