Editing Hendecasyllable (section)

==Polish==
The hendecasyllabic metre ({{langx|pl|jedenastozgłoskowiec}}) was very popular in Polish poetry, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, owing to strong Italian literary influence. It was used by [[Jan Kochanowski]],<ref>Compare: Summary [in:] Lucylla Pszczołowska, Wiersz polski. Zarys historyczny, Wrocław 1997, p. 398.</ref> [[Piotr Kochanowski]] (who translated ''[[Jerusalem Delivered]]'' by [[Torquato Tasso]]), [[Sebastian Grabowiecki]], [[Wespazjan Kochowski]] and [[Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski]]. The greatest Polish Romantic poet, [[Adam Mickiewicz]], set his poem [[Grażyna (poem)|Grażyna]] in this measure. The Polish hendecasyllable is widely used when translating English [[blank verse]].

The eleven-syllable line is normally a line of 5+6 syllables with medial [[caesura]], primary stresses on the fourth and tenth syllables, and feminine endings on both half-lines.<ref name="Gasparov220">{{cite book |last=Gasparov |first=M. L. |authorlink=Mikhail Gasparov |translator1-last=Smith |translator1-first=G. S. |translator2-last=Tarlinskaja |translator2-first=Marina |translator2-link=Marina Tarlinskaja |editor1-last=Smith |editor1-first=G. S. |editor2-last=Holford-Strevens |editor2-first=L. |editor2-link=Leofranc Holford-Strevens |title=A History of European Versification |year=1996 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofeuropea00gasp |url-access=registration |isbn=0-19-815879-3 |oclc=1027190450 |page=220}}</ref> Although the form can accommodate a fully iambic line, there is no such tendency in practice, word stresses falling variously on any of the initial syllables of each half-line.<ref name="Gasparov220" />
 o o o S s | o o o o S s
 
 '''o'''=any syllable, '''S'''=stressed syllable, '''s'''=unstressed syllable

A popular form of Polish literature that employs the hendecasyllable is the [[Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry|Sapphic stanza]]: 11/11/11/5.

The Polish hendecasyllable is often combined with an 8-syllable line: 11a/8b/11a/8b. Such a stanza was used by Mickiewicz in his ballads, as in the following example (with formal equivalent paraphrase):
{{Verse translation|lang=pl|
Ktokolwiek będziesz w Nowogródzkiej stronie,
{{pad|1em}}Do Płużyn ciemnego boru
Wjechawszy, pomnij zatrzymać twe konie,
{{pad|1em}}Byś się przypatrzył jezioru.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mickiewicz |first=Adam |title=Ballady i romanse |date=1852 |publisher=F. A. Brockhaus |location=Lipsk |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlIAAAAAcAAJ |language=pl}}</ref>|attr1=[[Adam Mickiewicz]]: "Świteź", lines 1-4|
Visitor passing Novogrudok's courses
{{pad|1em}}In Płużyn forest's umbration,
Once come, remember to rein in your horses:
{{pad|1em}}View the lake in admiration.}}