Hendecasyllable

The hendecasyllable ( Italian, " eleven syllables ", plural endecasillabi ) is the most widely used in Italian poetry line of verse since Dante Alighieri. Its name derives from the fact that in Italian, not the metrical feet, but (like in French ) the syllables are counted.

The verse is not identical with the ancient Hendekasyllabus.

In this verse, the final emphasis is always on the tenth syllable. If the unstressed verse ends, so it has a feminine cadence, like most Italian words, the one that is really getting hendecasyllable eleven syllables.

Example

A sonnet of gas Stampa ( two consecutive vowels are smoothed reading aloud to each other so that only one syllable results thereof):

In addition to the emphasis on the classic Send hendecasyllable almost always has a clear secondary stress, either on the fourth ( = hendecasyllable minore ) or on the sixth syllable ( = hendecasyllable maiore ). This results in a temporary break results in this verse

Example

The beginning of Dante's "Divine Comedy":

In German the hendecasyllable is simply represented by a hyperkatalektischen iambic pentameter. Used the hendecasyllable especially Dante in his terza rima and Petrarch in his sonnets.

German example ( from Goethe 's poem in the form of a punch )

In German language ( and even more in English ) instead remained the zehnsilbige blank verse cadence with male predominant. In French poetry, however, dominate the Alexandrians and the verse Commun.

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