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- In poetry, a hendecasyllable (as an adjective, hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters,...
- lines of verse are not considered to be made up of feet, for example hendecasyllable lines.[citation needed] In some kinds of metre, such as the Gr**** iambic...
- Catullus wrote short poems using as his favourite metres the Phalaecian hendecasyllable, choliambs (scazons), and elegiac couplets. Several people are addressed...
- typically use iambic pentameter, while in the Romance languages, the hendecasyllable and Alexandrine are the most widely used meters. Sonnets of all types...
- c. 1490 – 21 September 1542), was a Spanish poet who incorporated hendecasyllable verses into Spanish. The exact date of birth for Boscà is unclear,...
- trimeter Saturnian (poetry) Metres of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic...
- iambic dimeter in the second line. Horace's Epode 16 is an example. The hendecasyllable is an 11-syllable line used extensively by Catullus and Martial, for...
- Sanskrit metre. It also occurs in some Western metres, such as the hendecasyllable favoured by Catullus and Martial, which can be described as: x x —...
- which later became silent, his poetry includes a greater number of hendecasyllables than that of Modern English poets. Notes Dragiša Živković (1971). Živan...
- form consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each, called a hendecasyllable. The form is common in late medieval Italian poetry. In English poetry...