"The Wallace" is a long narrative work composed in decasyllabic rhyming couplets. "Reuben Bright" is a sonnet with decasyllabic lines of iambic pentameter. It is written in the decasyllabic meter of Serbian epic poetry. "Jack & Mollie (& Her)" is a book-length poem comprising decasyllabic cinquains. The dialogues in his plays were written in verse form and followed a decasyllabic rule. The poem introduced the "Gondibert stanza", a decasyllabic quatrain in pentameters rhyming abab. The poem is written in tightly-structured decasyllabic blank verse and comprises verse-paragraphs rather than stanzas.