hendecasyllabic
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of hendecasyllabic
First recorded in 1720–30; hendecasyllable + -ic
Example Sentences
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The Italian hendecasyllabic, the French Alexandrian, the English heroic iambic, are obvious examples.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
In the hendecasyllabic he is smoother and more polished.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
Fourthly, if you take account of the said troublesome E, almost universally these deficient measures become filled up to the due complement—become decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic, as the case may be.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
The three hundred and fifty-eight dedicatory epigrams include sixteen in hexameter and iambic, and one in hendecasyllabic; and among the seven hundred and fifty sepulchral epigrams are forty-two in hexameter, iambic, and other mixed metres.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail
Finally, I resolved to follow the example of many other writers and compose a whole separate volume in the hendecasyllabic metre; nor do I regret having done so.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
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