Editing Hendecasyllable (section)

==English==
The term "hendecasyllable" most often refers to an imitation of Greek or Latin metrical lines, notably by [[Alfred Tennyson]], [[Algernon Charles Swinburne|Swinburne]], and [[Robert Frost]] ("For Once Then Something"). Contemporary American poets [[Annie Finch]] ("Lucid Waking") and [[Patricia Smith (poet)|Patricia Smith]] ("The Reemergence of the Noose") have published recent examples.  In English, which lacks phonemic length, poets typically substitute stressed syllables for ''long'', and unstressed syllables for ''short''. Tennyson, however, attempted to maintain the quantitative features of the meter (while supporting them with concurrent stress) in his [[Alcaic stanza]]s, the first two lines of which are Alcaic hendecasyllables:
{{Poem quote|title=Tennyson: "Milton", lines 1-4|
O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies,
O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,
{{pad|1em}}God-gifted organ-voice of England,
{{pad|2em}}Milton, a name to resound for ages;<ref>{{cite book |last=Tennyson |first=Alfred |author-link=Alfred Tennyson |title=Enoch Arden, &c. |date=1864 |publisher=Ticknor and Fields |location=Boston |page=200 |url=https://archive.org/details/enochardenc00tennrich/page/201}}</ref>}}

Occasionally "hendecasyllable" is used to denote a line of [[iambic pentameter]] with a [[masculine and feminine endings|feminine ending]], as in the first line of [[John Keats]]'s ''[[Endymion (poem)|Endymion]]'': "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever".