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Definition of hendecasyllable in English: hendecasyllablenoun ˌhɛndɛkəˈsɪləb(ə)l Prosody A line of verse containing eleven syllables. Example sentencesExamples - If I had tried to keep up the hendecasyllable meter I probably would have gone insane.
- His hendecasyllables are both a tribute to Catullus and an interpretation of one aspect of his poetry.
- Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
- In developing English equivalences for his Italian texts, he turned hendecasyllables into iambic pentameters and septenarii into iambic trimeters.
- He accepted the dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse forms from the very beginning, and basically never abandoned them.
Definition of hendecasyllable in US English: hendecasyllablenoun Prosody A line of verse containing eleven syllables. Example sentencesExamples - He accepted the dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse forms from the very beginning, and basically never abandoned them.
- In developing English equivalences for his Italian texts, he turned hendecasyllables into iambic pentameters and septenarii into iambic trimeters.
- His hendecasyllables are both a tribute to Catullus and an interpretation of one aspect of his poetry.
- If I had tried to keep up the hendecasyllable meter I probably would have gone insane.
- Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
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