Endecasyllable Verse Example

The hendecasyllable verse It is the verse of major art that is formed by eleven syllables; In its simple form, this verse has an obligatory accent on the tenth syllable, which must be accompanied by another intermediate accent, which is also obligatory but which can change places.

The origin of hendecasyllable verses occurred in Italy, and these verses were later adopted by Spain, which kept them for a while without flourished, reaching the Renaissance, where it flourished mainly by Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Boscán, who led it to its greatest expression.

The variation of the intermediate accents, produce variations of tones or rhythms and these variations allowed the division of the three most known types:

a) .- hendecasyllable verse a maiori, (own self) is stressed in the 6th and 10th syllables

• Emphatic.- It is accentuated in the 1st, 6th and 10th syllables.
• Heroic.- It is accentuated in the 2nd, 6th and 10th syllables.
• Melodic.- It is accentuated in the 3rd, 6th and 10th syllables.

b) .- Decasyllable verse to minori, (Sapphic) is accentuated in the 1st, 4th, 8th and 10th syllables

• Primary.- It is accentuated in the 4th and 10th syllables.
• Sapphic.- It is accentuated in the 1st, 4th, 8th and 10th syllables.

c) .- Endecasyllable verse of Galician bagpipes, it is accentuated in the 4th, 7th and 10th syllables.

• Galician bagpipes - (pure) 4th, 8th and 10th
• Galician bagpipe - (full) 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th syllables

Examples of hendecasyllable verse:

They will be marked in bold syllables that are stressed:

First.- Hendecasyllable verse to Maiori, (proper) is accentuated in the 6th and 10th syllables

Emphatic.- 1st, 6th and 10th syllables.

- Toi regured itgitas, what ofvoflush ...
- Hiedra that for the arbowls camenas
- Calida and deliciosa cousingora

Heroic.- 2nd, 6th and 10th syllables.

- Your orjos germinando in the crissuch
- Me to be it's my vivir accumulatedthedo

Melodic 3rd, 6th and 10th syllables.

- If the Salt of the tierra be ofrrama
- The dark swallows will return

Second.- Decasyllable verse to Minori, (Sapphic) is accentuated in the 4th, 8th and 10th syllables

Primary.- 4th and 10th syllables.

In the soneitherdo of your voice of rosa (4th-8th-10th) Pure
That the carnations that the dawn broke

Sapphic.- 1st, 4th, 8th and 10th syllables.

SWit in your brazos sucumbió the dietea
Triyou reCuertwo of the placer pergavedo

Third.- Hendecasyllable verse Galician bagpipe, is accentuated in the 4th, 7th and 10th syllables.

Galician bagpipe - pure 4th, 7th and 10th

And in his myragive the dolor I knowaunt
By the dolor That in tiene cauyouyou

Galician bagpipes - 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th plenary session

Show me the sky in your green lap
Corre and recorre the senfromro without nadie