hendecasyllables

There are many poems of Catullus that strike me as essentially proto-sonnets — that is, poems of 13, 14, 15 lines, often with a turn, and in hendecasyllables, the syllable count of the sonnet line for many Romance languages, and only one syllable off form our own usual iambic pentameter.

and the pleiades : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

I confess that with my irreverent 17 years it seemed that those hendecasyllables, grouped in two quartets and two triplets, were only for those who had not been able to prove themselves in the freedom of modern poetry.

Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet? Yoani Sanchez 2011

I confess that with my irreverent 17 years it seemed that those hendecasyllables, grouped in two quartets and two triplets, were only for those who had not been able to prove themselves in the freedom of modern poetry.

Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet? Yoani Sanchez 2011

I confess that with my irreverent 17 years it seemed that those hendecasyllables, grouped in two quartets and two triplets, were only for those who had not been able to prove themselves in the freedom of modern poetry.

Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet? Yoani Sanchez 2011

As soon as you turned off the light, obstinate insects began crawling out of the U-bend of the sink: brilliant metaphors that crawled along the tiles, hemistitches with compound eyes, fragments of prose having opaque integuments, hendecasyllables with eleven feet counted on your fingers...

Blood on the Saddle 2006

Of goodness to receive lovely direction. or the hendecasyllables immediately preceding,

Poems and Fragments 2006

Philip Sidney has given in his Arcadia specimens of hexameters, elegiacs, sapphics, asclepiads, anacreontics, hendecasyllables.

Poems and Fragments 2006

As soon as you turned off the light, obstinate insects began crawling out of the U-bend of the sink: brilliant metaphors that crawled along the tiles, hemistitches with compound eyes, fragments of prose having opaque integuments, hendecasyllables with eleven feet counted on your fingers...

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

Last year I put half Tommy Moore into hendecasyllables.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

I have occasionally attempted heroic hexameters, but it is only quite recently that I have taken to writing hendecasyllables.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914