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The most usual Stress Scheme s for an hendecasyllable are stresses on 6th and 10th syllables (''Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita'', Dante Alighieri , first line of '' The Divine Comedy ),'' and on 4th, 7th and 10th syllables (''Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti'', Ugo Foscolo , '' I Sepolcri ''). Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables, for instance, the main works by Dante , Francesco Petrarca , Ludovico Ariosto , and Torquato Tasso . It has a role in Italian poetry, and a formal structure, comparable to the Iambic Pentameter in English or the Alexandrine in French . This form is not to be confused with '' Hendecasyllabics '', a quantitative meter used by Catullus . |
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