Therefore, nothing very distinct can be asserted about the origin of the hendecasyllable iambic line, which marks Italian poetry.
Endechas reales are cuartetas in which three heptasyllables are followed by a hendecasyllable.
They first employed the Italian hendecasyllable, although it did not become acclimated till the days of Boscn.
hendecasyllable, hen′dek-a-sil-a-bl, n. a metrical line of eleven syllables.
