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Hendecasyllable, hen′dek-a-sil-a-bl, n. a metrical line of eleven syllables.—adj.

The Monthly Miscellany for June 1776 provided a few kindly lines: "This didactic rhapsody, the precepts contained in which are founded upon passages referred to in his Lordship's letters, is written in hendecasyllable measure, and is not destitute of humour."

The Italian hendecasyllable is an accentual iambic line of five feet with one unaccented syllable over and included in the rhyme.

What seems tolerably certain is that the modern Italian hendecasyllable was suggested by one of the Latin eleven-syllabled meters, but that, in the decay of quantitative prosody, an iambic rhythm asserted itself.

That which is most frequently used is the Phalæcian hendecasyllable, consisting of a spondee, dactyl, and three trochees.