Poetry Guide: Dodecasyllable
Dodecasyllable verse (in Italian dodecasillabo) is a kind of verse used mostly in Italian poetry, although also used in poetry of the Southern Slavs (for example Milan Rakic). Each verse has exactly twelve syllables (and the literal meaning of the word is just "of twelve syllables").
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