Editing Hendecasyllable (section)

==Portuguese==
The hendecasyllable ({{langx|pt|hendecassílabo}}) is a common meter in Portuguese poetry. The best-known Portuguese poem composed in hendecasyllables is [[Luís de Camões]]' ''[[Os Lusíadas|Lusiads]]'', which begins as follows:
{{Verse translation|lang=pt|attr1=Camões: ''Os Lusíadas'', Canto I, lines 1-8|attr2=trans. [[Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet|Sir Richard Fanshawe]]|
As armas, & os barões assinalados,
Que da Occidental praya Lusitana,
Por mares, nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram, ainda alem da Taprobana,
Em perigos, & guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana.
Entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram.<ref>{{cite book |last=Camões |first=Luís de |title=Os Lusiadas |date=1572 |publisher=Antonio Go[n]çaluez impressor. |location=Lisbon |page=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/oslusiadasdeluis00cam/page/n7}}</ref>|
''Armes, and the Men'' above the vulgar File,
Who from the Western Lusitanian shore
Past ev'n beyond the Trapobanian-Isle,
Through Seas which never Ship has sayld before;
Who (brave in action, patient in long Toyle,
Beyond what strength of humane nature bore)
{{pad|1em}}'Mongst Nations, under other Stars, acquir'd
{{pad|1em}}A modern Scepter which to Heaven aspir'd.<ref>{{cite book |last=Camões |first=Luís de |editor-last=Bullough |translator-first=Sir Richard |translator-last=Fanshawe |editor-first=Geoffrey |title=The Lusiads |date=1963 |publisher=Centaur Press |location=London |page=59 |url=https://archive.org/details/lusiads0000camo/page/59  |url-access=registration}}</ref>}}

In Portuguese, the hendecasyllable meter is often called "decasyllable" (''decassílabo''), even when the work in question uses overwhelmingly feminine rhymes (as is the case with the ''Lusiads''). This is due to Portuguese prosody considering verses to end at the last stressed syllable, thus the aforementioned verses are effectively decasyllabic according to Portuguese scansion.