hendecasyllable
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Etymology
Origin of hendecasyllable
1740–50; < Latin hendecasyllabus < Greek hendekasýllabos. See hendeca-, syllable
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What seems tolerably certain is that the modern Italian hendecasyllable was suggested by one of the Latin eleven-syllabled meters, but that, in the decay of quantitative prosody, an iambic rhythm asserted itself.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
We have it in our dramatic hendecasyllable; but then we have a power of interweaving the iambic close ad libitum.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
With Statius, as with Martial, the hendecasyllable always begins with a spondee.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
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 Theodore Martin
It was the beginning of a revolution, which Ferreira completed by abandoning the hendecasyllable for the Italian decasyllable, and by composing the noble and austere 286 Roman poetry of his letters, odes and elegies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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