What is hendecasyllabic?
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.
What is the classical hendecasyllable meter?
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 (- u u -).
What is a hendecasyllable poem?
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,
Where did the hendecasyllable iambic line originate?
Endechas reales are cuartetas in which three heptasyllables are followed by a hendecasyllable. Therefore, nothing very distinct can be asserted about the origin of the hendecasyllable iambic line, which marks Italian poetry. Hendecasyllable, hen′dek-a-sil-a-bl, n. a metrical line of eleven syllables.
Can a line in iambic pentameter have 11 syllables?
A given line may have 9 , 11 or even 12 syllables instead of 10. And variations in Iambic Pentameter can extend even further. Shakespeare will sometimes intersperse the overall 10 syllable pattern with 6 syllable lines – called squinting lines (a term coined by George Wright).
What meter does Catullus use?
Catullus uses mainly the hendecasyllabic meter, occasionally the Sapphic, the iambic senarius and the limping iambics.
What is Hendecasyllabic meter?
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.
What is lamb poem?
An iamb is a two-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
Origin of hendecasyllabic
From Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἐνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasullabos), from ἕνδεκα (hendeka, “eleven”) + συλλαβή (sullabē, “syllable”).
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἐνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasullabos), from ἕνδεκα (hendeka, “eleven”) + συλλαβή (sullabē, “syllable”).
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Origin of hendecasyllable
1740–50; <Latin hendecasyllabus <Greek hendekasýllabos. See hendeca-, syllable
How to use hendecasyllable in a sentence
They first employed the Italian hendecasyllable, although it did not become acclimated till the days of Boscn.