In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry, and the newer of which are syllabic or accentual-syllabic and used in medieval and modern poetry.
In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older...
some lines of verse are not considered to be made up of feet, e.g. hendecasyllable. In some kinds of metre, such as the Greek iambic trimeter, two feet...
typically use iambic pentameter, while in the Romance languages, the hendecasyllable and Alexandrine are the most widely used meters. Sonnets of all types...
are: Eupolidean Sotadean Anapaestic septenarius Galliambic Phalaecian hendecasyllable Epodic metres are a simple kind of strophic verse practised by some...
author; like Sophonisba, they are in Italian and in blank (unrhymed) hendecasyllables. Another of the first of all modern tragedies is A Castro, by Portuguese...
the hendecasyllable and lesser asclepiad: x – u – | u – u – | u – u – (iambic trimeter) x x – u | u – u – | u – – (Phalaecian hendecasyllable) x x –...
iambic dimeter in the second line. Horace's Epode 16 is an example. The hendecasyllable is an 11-syllable line used extensively by Catullus and Martial, for...
both followed the Petrarchan model, employed the hitherto unfamiliar hendecasyllable, and when writing of love were based on the neoplatonic ideal championed...
and the cretic as follows: | – x – | – u – || – x – | – u – | The hendecasyllable metre used by Catullus and Martial has the following form, beginning...
Mickiewicz, is written in this measure. Polish alexandrines replaced hendecasyllables in sonnets: in the 16th century poets like Sebastian Grabowiecki and...
Gatto translated the novel twice, in 1922 in prose and in 1950 in hendecasyllables. More recent translations are those by Giovanni Giudici (a first version...
with a flap step. Anapaest Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee The Ants Go Marching Blank verse...
is important in counting syllables in poetry. An example is in this hendecasyllable (11-syllable line) by Garcilaso de la Vega: Los cabellos que al oro...
and effeminate. The educationist Quintilian says that love elegies, hendecasyllables, and sotadeans were unsuitable for teaching to boys, adding "concerning...
Hexasyllable, the six-syllable line Octosyllable, the eight-syllable line Hendecasyllable, the eleven-syllable line Dodecasyllable, the twelve-syllable line...
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