单词 | hendecasyllable |
释义 | hendecasyllablen. Prosody. A line of verse consisting of eleven syllables; = hendecasyllabic n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > eleven syllables hendecasyllable1602 hendecasyllabic1795 tristubh1869 hendecasemic1889 1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie iv. 14 I see no reason why the English Iambick in his first place may not as well borrow a foote of the Trochy, as our Trochy or the Latine Hendicasillable may in the like case make bold with the Iambick. 1619 S. Jerome Origen's Repent. Pref. sig. B Lemannus performing the same, in perpetuall Hendecasyllables. 1746 W. Melmoth tr. Pliny Lett. iv. xiv. 145 I design to give these trifles the title of Hendecasyllables [L. hendecasyllabi]. 1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer iii. §7 (note) in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer As the French Alexandrin may be composed of twelve or thirteen syllables, and the Italian Hendecasyllable of ten, eleven, or even twelve. 1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe I. ix. 398 The verses, thus interlinked, are all endecasyllables. 1871 R. Ellis in tr. Catullus Poems Pref. p. xiii Had Sir Philip Sidney written..every hendecasyllable like Where sweet graces erect the stately banner. 2017 Malta Today (Nexis) 9 Aug. The reflexive classic hendecasyllable is still in use, but these days many opt for free verse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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