Explore the Craft of Writing Greek Poetry
The Classical Hendecameter is one of the 4 classic meters of Aeolic verse from the 8th-6th centuries BC Greek Dark Ages. It was used generously many centuries later by the Engish poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is an 11 syllable line written with a trochee followed by a dactyl and 3 trochees in that order. The first and last trochees can be spondees.
In Greek, quantitative verse
Ls-Lss-Ls-Ls-Ls L= long sound or syllable s= short sound or syllable
or
LL-Lss-Ls-Ls-LL
In English accentual syllabic verse applies
Su-Suu-Su-Su-Su