Classical Hendecasyllable

Type:	Line, Metrical Requirement
Description:	This is a trochee, a dactyl, and three trochees. The first and last trochees can be spondees.
Origin:	Greek
Schematic:	XX Xxx Xx Xx XX or  Xx Xxx Xx Xx Xx
Line/Poem Length:	11
See Also:	Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Classical Pentameter, Dactyl, Quantitative Verse,Spondee, Strambotto (Sicilian), Trochee
Status:	Incomplete

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Thanks to Charles for the wonderful resource above, which after investigation is frequently the only one I need.

I found these in quatrains with abab rhyme, and in a single 15 line unrhymed stanza by Robert Frost. "For Once, Then, Something" the only such he ever wrote in this form.

Example Poem

Extinguished          (Classical Hendecasyllable)

Glowing embers ignite when fanned with ardour

left alone they conserve by self-containment.

Love's lost heat can be flamed by trying harder

Or, ignored and then settled by arraignment.

(c) Lawrencealot - March 2, 2014

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