adjective
- of, relating to, or composed of lines of verse containing eleven syllables
Usage: literary; prosody
Examples
- The poet chose a hendecasyllabic meter for the entire collection.
- Hendecasyllabic verse was popular in Italian Renaissance poetry.
- The hendecasyllabic line has a distinctive rhythm that differs from iambic pentameter.
- She analyzed the hendecasyllabic structure of the classical Italian sonnets.