hendecasyllable

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Examples

• They first employed the Italian hendecasyllable, although it did not become acclimated till the days of Boscn.

• Endechas reales are cuartetas in which three heptasyllables are followed by a hendecasyllable.

• Therefore, nothing very distinct can be asserted about the origin of the hendecasyllable iambic line, which marks Italian poetry.

• Hendecasyllable, hen′dek-a-sil-a-bl, n. a metrical line of eleven syllables.