What is an endecasillabi?
Tra gli endecasillabi non canonici, i più comuni sono i cosiddetti "endecasillabi di quinta", che presentano appunto la quinta sillaba tonica e sia la quarta che la sesta atone. Nel Settecento Paolo Rolli tentò di trasporre l'endecasillabo falecio dalla metrica classica. ( Paolo Rolli, Endecasillabi, 4, v. 22, in Rime, 1717, p. 12)
Is the endecasillabo Canonico?
Questo tipo di endecasillabo non è considerato canonico, perché di regola in un endecasillabo canonico l'accento sulla quarta sillaba può essere quello di una parola monosillabica tronca o polisillabica piana, ma non di una polisillabica sdrucciola. Il verso, chiamato "endecasillabo rolliano", prende nome dal poeta che lo portò in auge.
What is the difference between endecasillabo and quinario?
The verse also has a stress preceding the caesura, on either the fourth or sixth syllable. The first case is called endecasillabo a minore, or lesser hendecasyllable, and has the first hemistich equivalent to a quinario; the second is called endecasillabo a maiore, or greater hendecasyllable, and has a settenario as the first hemistich.
What does hendecasyllable stand for?
The hendecasyllable ( Portuguese: hendecassílabo) is a common meter in Portuguese poetry. The best-known Portuguese poem composed in hendecasyllables is Luís de Camões ' Lusiads, which begins as follows:
What is a hendecasyllable?
The hendecasyllable ( endecasílabo) is less pervasive in Spanish poetry than in Italian or Portuguese, but it is commonly used with Italianate verse forms like sonnets and ottava rima. An example of the latter is Alonso de Ercilla 's epic La Araucana, which opens as follows:
What is the hendecasyllable in Italian poetry?
The hendecasyllable ( Italian: endecasillabo) is the principal metre in Italian poetry. Its defining feature is a constant stress on the tenth syllable, so that the number of syllables in the verse may vary, equaling eleven in the usual case where the final word is stressed on the penultimate syllable.
What is the seventh syllable of a hendecasyllable called?
Lesser hendecasyllables often have an accent on the seventh syllable ( "fàtta di giòco in figùra d'amóre" ). Such a line is called dactylic ( dattilico) and its less pronounced rhythm is considered particularly appropriate for representing dialogue.
What is the hendecasyllable meter in Portuguese?
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram. In Portuguese, the hendecasyllable meter is often called "decasyllable" ( decassílabo ), even when the work in question uses overwhelmingly feminine rhymes (as is the case with the Lusiads ).
How many syllables are in a hendecasyllable?
Hendecasyllable. In poetry, a hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables. The term "hendecasyllabic" is used to refer to two different poetic meters, the older of which is quantitative and used chiefly in classical ( Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry and the newer of which is accentual and used in medieval and modern poetry.
How many of Catullus' poems are hendecasyllabic?
Forty-three of Catullus's poems are hendecasyllabic; for an example, see Catullus 1 .
Who used the hendecasyllabic meter?
It was used by Jan Kochanowski, Piotr Kochanowski (who translated Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso ), Sebastian Grabowiecki, Wespazjan Kochowski and Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. The greatest Polish Romantic poet, Adam Mickiewicz, set his poem [ [ Grażyna ]] in this measure. The Polish hendecasyllable is widely used when translating English blank verse .
Cosa è l'endecasillabo e come si usa?
L’ endecasillabo è il verso più importante dell'intera poesia lirica italiana e il maggiormente usato in tutta la tradizione nazionale, dalle origini (con Dante Alighieri e Francesco Petrarca) fino alle soglie della versificazione libera novecentesca. Viene utilizzato per molte delle forme metriche, in particolar modo per quelle meglio consolidate e radicate nella storia letteraria: il sonetto (canonizzato sin dai tempi della scuola siciliana ), la ballata, la canzone (codificata dalla lezione petrarchesca del Canzoniere ), l' ottava (caratteristica dei poemi cavallereschi ed epici di Boiardo, Ariosto e Tasso) e la sestina lirica .
Che cos'è un endecasillabo?
Per endecasillabo si intende un verso, tendenzialmente di undici sillabe (il nome deriva dal greco éndeka, "undici"), che abbia come ultima sillaba tonica (e cioè , accentata) la decima. Numerose sono, tuttavia, le varietà formali, che si realizzano in base alla posizione delle altre sillabe toniche all’interno del verso, alle cesure (cioè le pause del ritmo all'interno del verso) e alle uscite dell'endecasillabo stesso. Due varianti sono le più importanti: la prima si realizza con la quarta sillaba accentata, dando vita così nella parte iniziale (o emistichio) dell'endecasillabo a un quinario, che risulta più breve della parte restante del verso, il quale viene pertanto detto a minore . La seconda possibilità si realizza quando è la sesta sillaba ad essere tonica, realizzando nella parte iniziale un settenario, cioè un emistichio più lungo della parte restante del verso, che quindi è chiamato nel suo complesso a maiore. I primi due versi del canto incipitario della Commedia di Dante sono appunto un endecasillabo a maiore e uno a minore:
Overview
In poetry, a hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables. The term "hendecasyllabic" is used to refer to two different poetic meters, the older of which is quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry and the newer of which is accentual and used in medieval and modern poetry. The term is often used when a line of iambic pentameter contains 11 syllables.
In classical poetry
The classical hendecasyllable is a quantitative meter used in Ancient Greece in Aeolic verse and in scolia, and later by the Roman poets Catullus and Martial. Each line has eleven syllables; hence the name, which comes from the Greek word for eleven. The heart of the line is the choriamb (– ⏑ ⏑ –). There are three different versions.
The pattern of the “Phalaecian” (Latin: hendecasyllabus phalaecius) is as follows (using “–” for …
In Italian poetry
The hendecasyllable (Italian: endecasillabo) is the principal metre in Italian poetry. Its defining feature is a constant stress on the tenth syllable, so that the number of syllables in the verse may vary, equaling eleven in the usual case where the final word is stressed on the penultimate syllable. The verse also has a stress preceding the caesura, on either the fourth or sixth syllable. The first case is called endecasillabo a minore, or lesser hendecasyllable, and has the first hemis…
In Polish poetry
The hendecasyllabic metre (Polish: jedenastozgłoskowiec) was very popular in Polish poetry, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, owing to strong Italian literary influence. It was used by Jan Kochanowski, Piotr Kochanowski (who translated Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso), Sebastian Grabowiecki, Wespazjan Kochowski and Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. The greatest Polish Romantic poet, Adam Mickiewicz, set his poem Grażyna in this measure. The Poli…
In Portuguese poetry
The hendecasyllable (Portuguese: hendecassílabo) is a common meter in Portuguese poetry. The best-known Portuguese poem composed in hendecasyllables is Luís de Camões' Lusiads, which begins as follows:
As armas e os barões assinalados, Que da ocidental praia Lusitana, Por mares nunca de antes navegados, Passaram ainda além da Taprobana, Em perigos e guerras esforçados, Mais do que …
In Spanish poetry
The hendecasyllable (endecasílabo) is less pervasive in Spanish poetry than in Italian or Portuguese, but it is commonly used with Italianate verse forms like sonnets and ottava rima. An example of the latter is Alonso de Ercilla's epic La Araucana, which opens as follows:
No las damas, amor, no gentilezas de caballeros canto enamorados, ni las muestras, regalos y ternezas de amorosos afectos y cuidados; mas el valor, los hechos, las proezas de aquellos esp…
In English poetry
The term "hendecasyllable" is sometimes used to describe a line of iambic pentameter with a feminine ending, as in the first line of John Keats's Endymion: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."
See also
• hexasyllable
• octosyllable
• decasyllable
• dodecasyllable
• iambic pentameter