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单词 hendecasyllable
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Definition of hendecasyllable in English:

hendecasyllable

noun 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.

Derivatives

  • hendecasyllabic

  • adjective hɛnˌdɛkəsɪˈlabɪkhɛnˌdɛkəsəˈlæbɪk
    Prosody
    • The most outstanding of the Catalan translators was Josep Maria de Sagarra, who, starting in the 1940s, translated 27 plays into Catalan hendecasyllabic lines.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The classical hendecasyllabic meter chosen for this lyric melodiously prompts us to seek ancient mythic analogues.
      • His sixty-four lines of rhyming hendecasyllabic couplets are juxtaposed with a considerably briefer fifty-three lines of English free verse.
      • His famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
 
 

Definition of hendecasyllable in US English:

hendecasyllable

noun
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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