hendecasyllable
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of hendecasyllable
1740–50; < Latin hendecasyllabus < Greek hendekasýllabos. See hendeca-, syllable
Example Sentences
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His miniature painting was in place, his sprightly and dexterous handling of the hexameter and the hendecasyllable could be more profitably employed.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
With Statius, as with Martial, the hendecasyllable always begins with a spondee.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
The hendecasyllable and scazon of Catullus became part and parcel of the poetic heritage of Rome, and Martial employs them only less happily than their matchless creator.
From Horace by Martin, Theodore
The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
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