Everything about Hendecasyllable totally explained
Hendecasyllable verse (in
Italian endecasillabo) is a kind of verse used mostly in
Italian poetry, defined by its having the last stress on the tenth
syllable. When, as often happens, this stress falls on the penultimate syllable, the line has exactly eleven syllables (and the literal meaning of the word is just "of eleven syllables").
The most usual
stress schemes for an hendecasyllable are stresses on 6th and 10th syllables ("
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,"
Dante Alighieri, first line of
The Divine Comedy), and on 4th, 7th and 10th syllables ("
Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti,"
Ugo Foscolo,
I Sepolcri).
Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables, for instance, the main works by
Dante,
Francesco Petrarca,
Ludovico Ariosto, and
Torquato Tasso.
It has a role in Italian poetry, and a formal structure, comparable to the
iambic pentameter in
English or the
alexandrine in
French.
This form isn't to be confused with
hendecasyllabics, a quantitative meter used by
Catullus.
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