hendecasyllable
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Origin of hendecasyllable
1740–50; < Latin hendecasyllabus < Greek hendekasýllabos. See hendeca-, syllable
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The Italian hendecasyllable is an accentual iambic line of five feet with one unaccented syllable over and included in the rhyme.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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
With Statius, as with Martial, the hendecasyllable always begins with a spondee.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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 Symonds, John Addington
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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