Editing Hendecasyllable (section)

{{Short description|Poetic line of eleven syllables}}
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In poetry, a '''hendecasyllable''' (as an adjective, '''hendecasyllabic''') is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are [[quantitative verse#Qualitative versus quantitative metre|quantitative]] and used chiefly in classical ([[Ancient Greek]] and [[Latin]]) poetry, and the newer of which are [[Syllabic verse|syllabic]] or [[Accentual-syllabic verse|accentual-syllabic]] and used in medieval and modern poetry.