Hendecasyllable

Hello there! Do you know what a hendecasyllable is? Let me explain it to you like you're a 5-year-old.

A hendecasyllable is a big, fancy word that means a line of poetry or verse that has eleven syllables. Syllables are the little beats or sounds that make up words when we say them out loud.

So, imagine you're saying a sentence like "I love ice cream!" That sentence has four syllables: "I," "love," "ice," and "cream." But a hendecasyllable would have eleven syllables, like "I really, really love to eat ice cream on a sunny day."

Hendecasyllables are used a lot in poetry, especially in Spanish and Italian poetry. They can make a poem sound beautiful and musical because of the way the syllables are arranged in each line.

So there you have it, a hendecasyllable is a fancy way of saying a line of poetry with eleven syllables. Cool, right?