Crossword-Solution: HENDECASYLLABIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hendecasyllabic | a. | Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HENDECASYLLABIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| metrical line of eleven | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
PALLWO
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Sentences with HENDECASYLLABIC (5)
The hendecasyllabic rhythm, in which the greater part are written, is the one best suited to display the poet's special gifts.
But the heroic (hendecasyllabic) quatrain was regarded in general as too lofty, stately, cool, for elegy.
That Chaucer admits the doubled ending we see by numerous unequivocal instances from all moods of the verse, mirthful and solemn; these show a versification friendly to the doubled ending; and must go far to remove any scruple of admitting Tyrwhitt's conception of it as generally hendecasyllabic.
The iambic blank verse of Italy was, however, mainly hendecasyllabic, not decasyllabic, and under French influences the habit of rhyme soon returned.
Once, while detained by bad weather on his way back from military service in Asia, he amused himself with composing in elegiac and heroic verse.(910) Later in his career, he published a volume of poems in hendecasyllabic metre, written on various occasions.