In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older...

some lines of verse are not considered to be made up of feet, e.g. hendecasyllable. In some kinds of metre, such as the Greek iambic trimeter, two feet...

c. 1490 – 21 September 1542), was a Spanish poet who incorporated hendecasyllable verses into Spanish. The exact date of birth for Boscà is unclear,...

are: Eupolidean Sotadean Anapaestic septenarius Galliambic Phalaecian hendecasyllable Epodic metres are a simple kind of strophic verse practised by some...

typically use iambic pentameter, while in the Romance languages, the hendecasyllable and Alexandrine are the most widely used meters. Sonnets of all types...

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alexandrine is the most typical pattern. In Italian literature the hendecasyllable, which is a metre of eleven syllables, is the most common line. In...

author; like Sophonisba, they are in Italian and in blank (unrhymed) hendecasyllables. Another of the first of all modern tragedies is A Castro, by Portuguese...

Seneca the Younger's Hippolytus in 1497, which was remarked for its hendecasyllable. A student of Ugolino di Vieri, he was a member of the Order of Friars...

hendecagon, hendecagram, hendecagrammic, hendecane, hendecasyllabic, hendecasyllable hendecahedron hepat- liver Greek ἧπαρ, ἥπατος (hêpar, hḗpatos), ἡπατικός...

Catullus wrote short poems using as his favourite metres the Phalaecian hendecasyllable, choliambs (scazons), and elegiac couplets. Several people are addressed...

the hendecasyllable and lesser asclepiad: x – u – | u – u – | u – u – (iambic trimeter) x x – u | u – u – | u – – (Phalaecian hendecasyllable) x x –...

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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 —...

and the cretic as follows: | – x – | – u – || – x – | – u – | The hendecasyllable metre used by Catullus and Martial has the following form, beginning...

both followed the Petrarchan model, employed the hitherto unfamiliar hendecasyllable, and when writing of love were based on the neoplatonic ideal championed...

with a flap step. Anapaest Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion Trochee The Ants Go Marching Blank verse...

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...

consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is ABBA ABBA...

is important in counting syllables in poetry. An example is in this hendecasyllable (11-syllable line) by Garcilaso de la Vega: Los cabellos que al oro...

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1729 – George Adams, prose: full text 1782 – Vittorio Alfieri, in hendecasyllables: text in Italian 1839 – Johann Jakob Christian Donner, German verse...

– u – | u – – (phalaecian hendecasyllable) x – – u | u – – u | u – u – (minor asclepiad) An example of the hendecasyllable is the following from Catullus:...

Gatto translated the novel twice, in 1922 in prose and in 1950 in hendecasyllables. More recent translations are those by Giovanni Giudici (a first version...

the second half. In the same way, Kiparsky analyses the phalaecian hendecasyllable as a catalectic trimeter, as follows: x x – ᴗ | ᴗ – ᴗ – | ᴗ – – vivamus...

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and effeminate. The educationist Quintilian says that love elegies, hendecasyllables, and sotadeans were unsuitable for teaching to boys, adding "concerning...

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interpreted as the fallen angel Satan) and the break (the comma) in the hendecasyllable, gives it a tone of a prayer or an invocation to Satan, although there...

probability. In his versification Enciso shows great variety, but the hendecasyllable (eleven-syllabled verse) seems to predominate. His work as a whole...