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hendecasyllabic

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hen·dec·a·syl·lab·ic  (hn-dk-s-lbk)
adj.
Containing 11 syllables.
n.
A verse of 11 syllables.
[From Latin hendecasyllabus, a line of eleven syllables, from Greek hendekasullabos : hendeka, eleven (hen, neuter of heis, one; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + deka, ten; see decade) + sullab, syllable; see syllable.]
hen·deca·sylla·ble (-sl-bl) n.
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hendecasyllabic [ˈhendekəsɪˈlæbɪk] ADJ → endecasílabo


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Whereas Pulci's Italian hendecasyllabic octaves rhyme abababcc, Tusiani has chosen to approximate that form with an English blank verse sestette, followed by a rhyming or half-rhyming pentameter couplet.
The Epic Adventures of Orlando and His Giant Friend Morgante by Cook, James Wyatt / Renaissance Quarterly
Whereas Pulci's Italian hendecasyllabic octaves rhyme abababcc, Tusiani has chosen to approximate that form with an English blank verse sestette, followed by a rhyming or half-rhyming pentameter couplet.
Half-serious Rhymes: The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci by Cook, James Wyatt / Renaissance Quarterly
Navarrete interprets Boscan's preface to Boscan's and Garcilaso's 1543 Obras as a courtly defense of the hendecasyllabic line and an implicit alliance of Italian versification with the cosmopolitan court of Charles V.
Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance by Rhodes, Elizabeth / Renaissance Quarterly
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