The hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry. ==In quantitative verse== The classical hendecasyllable is a quantitative meter used in Ancient Greece in Aeolic verse and in scolia, and later by the Roman poet Catullus. Each line has eleven syl...
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• (n.) A metrical line of eleven syllables.
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Hen·dec'a·syl`la·ble noun [ Latin
hendecasyllabus , Greek ... eleven-syllabled; ... eleven + ... syllable: confer French
hendécasyllabe .] A metrical line of eleven syllables.
J. Warton. Found on
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